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Book review: Bend With The Wind, Suraya Dewing
"Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict," writes Robert McKee of Story Seminar fame.
Bill Oddie on the good times and the bad times
Television comedian-cum-birdwatcher and writer Bill Oddie talks to Greg Bruce about his path through fame and depression.
Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow does eat carbs
Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow does eat carbs! An exclusive extract from her new book, It's All Easy.
Visionary Kiwi on radar at last
Alan Bollard has written two books about Bill Phillips, a visionary New Zealander who changed the world of economics.
Potter author reveals favourite character
Author JK Rowling has revealed who her favourite Harry Potter character is.
How British spies saved Harry Potter
A spokesman for GCHQ said: "We do not comment on our defence against the dark arts."
Hang ten for a piece of surfing history
A pristine copy of Hawaiian Surfboard is part of the Rare Books collection up for grabs.
Book review: Deep South, Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux is one of the great travel writers because he makes you eager to visit where he writes about, even when he sharply gets what's wrong with it.
Bookworm Literary Festival: Flowering together with books
Dozens of authors will visit for the Auckland Writers Festival but what's it like to be a visiting author far from home?
Science shows Moby Dick could have sunk ship
It took Herman Melville 135 chapters to get to the part when the whale and the captain do battle, but it took 165 years for scientists it prove it's actually possible.
Reading can fight poverty - advocate
A visiting British reading advocate says reading can help fight poverty.
Why Ian McKellen gave up on his memoir
Sir Ian McKellen returned a £1 million memoir advance because he found writing it "painful".
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.
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.