It sounds incredible now that it took so long, but it was well received and won the Best First Book award.

Marvel comics is about to obliterate everything you've come to know about The Hulk.

JK Rowling explains Harry Potter named his middle child Albus Severus out of "forgiveness and respect" to Severus Snape.

Heroic fantasy books, Jack Reacher novels and crime thrillers top the reading list inside our prisons.

Although Paul Hartigan's art has roamed from pop-art painting and posters, to Polaroids and beyond, his neon work is the most familiar.

Our top reads of the year for 2015.

The 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards inaugural longlist has been announced. There are 40 long-listed works; ten each from the four awards categories - illustrated non-fiction, general non-fiction, poetry and fiction.

A Hunger Games prequel might be in the works, according to series' director Francis Lawrence.

John Freeman shot to international fame with his contentious 2009 book Shrinking the World: The 4000-Year Story Of How Email Came To Rule Our Lives.

There's no easy way to find out that an old mate has terminal cancer but reading a book about it has got to be one of the most moving.

Will the Pacific save us? In his biography of an ocean, Simon Winchester finds an optimistic note among all the doom we humans trail in our wake.

The style of the narrative can best be described as a darkly comic fairy tale. All the familiar tropes are there; jilted hero, beautiful damsel, dark castle,mysterious forest and a collection of untrustworthy characters who mean our hero no good.

There's only one person who can reduce Kiwi men to starstruck school girls clamouring for a peep of their idol.

You'll go a long way to find a more complex character than French writer Michel Houellebecq. He has attracted (and courted) controversy throughout his literary career.

Bill Manhire's new collection of stories includes a powerful essay on growing up with a father who liked a drink.

7-year-old Kate Diprose loves art and is now a published illustrator.

Wealth inequality is driving us back to the days of Victorian England, argues a book exposing the rise of the rich kid club.

The Sun may shine once winter falls as Game of Thrones author George RR Martin hints at a bittersweet ending for his famed book series.

Photographer Jane Ussher has captured some of New Zealand's most beautiful church architecture in her new book, Worship. Here are some of those images.

A new book breaks down the surprising ingredients in popular foods.

Francoise Gilot expresses controversial views in her new book: 'About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter'.

Kiwi Steve Williams opens up about golfer's affairs in tell-all book.