Crime writer's stories go from Auckland to Hollywood
Local writer Ben Sanders tells Greg Fleming about transposing his previously Auckland-based crimes Stateside and finding his storylines while daydreaming.
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JK Rowling inspired by rejection letters
The Harry Potter author has told how publishers suggested she could benefit from a writing course when she approached them under pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Complaint upheld over Margaret Mahy's book being read on air
A complaint about the reading of a novel written by a beloved Kiwi children's author has been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Our new dark and twisted literary heroines
Our new literary heroines are dark, twisted - and a little closer to home. Kim Knight talks domestic noir with Paula Hawkins, ahead of the British author's Auckland visit.
Dear World, I'm Toby from England
A book about New Zealand got Toby Little started on a mammoth letter-writing project. Joe Shute meets him.
Literary world heads to NZ
Booker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and standout New Zealand writers are lined up for the Auckland Writers Festival.
Rowling's whopping post-Potter earnings
JK Rowling has earned a further NZ$11.2 billion from the Harry Potter brand since completing the young adult book series.
Art Green: 'Not the ideal way to start a relationship'
Art Green talks about his new book Eat Clean, Live Lean, wanting children with his girlfriend Matilda and the second season of The Bachelor.
Alyssa Rosenberg: It's time for JK Rowling to let other people write Harry Potter books
COMMENT: Since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007 and the second of the two-part movie adaptation of JK Rowling's final Harry Potter novels was released in 2011, the author and her creation have been in a kind of limbo.
Author of banned book pens sequel
Dawe says Into the World is a story about the traps that young men fall into, with a focus on the results of bad decisions.
Is JK Rowling's new story racist?
In an anxiously anticipated new story, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has transported her world of magical wizarding across the Atlantic and some Native American commentators are not happy with the result, saying it exploits and distorts Native culture.
Rowling reveals new Potter villains
The second chapter of JK Rowling's History of Magic in America includes even more revelations about the previously untold past of wizards and witches in the New World.
Five big reveals from Rowling's new Potter story
JK Rowling has unveiled the first of four chapters from her History of Magic in North America. Rachel Bache takes a closer look at the lessons we can learn about the wizarding world.
Sequel to banned book arrives next week
A sequel to the controversial book Into the River is set to be released at a launch in Mt Eden next Tuesday.
Rowling's surprise for Harry Potter fans
JK Rowling has dropped a bombshell on Harry Potter fans, previewing new stories that promise to unveil "the whole story".
New book claims Oracle broke rules
An American journalist claims to have uncovered evidence that Oracle broke the rules in their famous comeback win over Team NZ in the 2013 America's Cup.
Is this the new Fifty Shades of Grey?
Is this 'geeky' Oxford graduate's debut the sexiest book of the year?
The most insulting things about ageing
Book extract: Helen Garner's assault on condescension.
Reaching out to ghosts
Sally Gardner's imagination seems inexorably drawn to the past, but what if the journey was real? She talks to Stephen Jewell about her latest novel and its time-travelling teenagers.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' author dies
Harper Lee, the novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice became standard reading for millions and an Oscar-winning film, has died.
Donning the shoes of a mystery man
Scottish writer Peter May tells Stephen Jewell about returning to his homeland for his latest novel and putting himself into his character's mind.