Call it a case of life imitating art. Copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird have become hot property at Auckland libraries.

John Hart talks to Craig Sisterson about the roller coaster road to publication of his latest thriller.

What a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.

When I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.

In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.

From rampaging dinosaurs and Maori myths to Shakespeare and social issues, our best writers for children and young adults tell stories about them all.

A comic book creator and real estate heir has been accused of torturing and murdering his girlfriend in Hollywood.

This year's big important NZ rock book has arrived and it's by the guy who founded Flying Nun. Here, he comes Clean about why and how he wrote it.

COMMENT: Sometimes I can confront my grief - walk right into the physical and emotional pain - but at other times I simply know I'm not up to the task.

Stephen Jewell talks to British author Chris Cleave about bravery, racism and how he avoids getting stuck in a writing groove.

Zhang's bleakly lyrical first YA novel brought a cascade of admirers and superlatives; now comes this intricate narrative of adolescents in all their vulnerability, idealism and savagery.

From the sure hand of historian Joan Norlev Taylor comes the tricky manoeuvre of binding fact and fiction into a convincing historical novel.

"Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present," says one of Lionel Shriver's characters in her latest novel set in a dystopian America of the near future.

Simon Cowell is planning to write a children's book along with other entertainment for kids.

About two years ago I bought a euthanasia drug online from China.

When it comes to crime fiction, New Jersey-based writer Harlan Coben is Big Business.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction

It goes to show, as Hare says, the audience - the way it reacts and responds and its current concerns - shapes theatre.

At 82, Gloria Steinem - the woman who spearheaded the women's liberation movement in the United States and beyond - was smoking hot.

The late artist worked on DC: The New Frontier, Catwoman, Parker and the Batman and Superman animated series.

In recent years there have been far too many reworks of Jane Austen novels.

The winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards aren't the only local authors toasting success.

He cuts scrub to make ends meet and used to pretend to be looking at porn to hide his love of poetry from army mates.

The Auckland Writers Festival, under way at civic centre venues this week, is a testament to the continued value of the written word.

Decades of hard work for Stephen Daisley, a former shearer, farmer and soldier turned author, have paid off.

Sitting in their English teacher's office, seven McAuley High School girls are discussing their favourite books.

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist.