'Everything lands me in trouble' - Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.
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The tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.
Book review: Trifecta, Ian Wedde
The typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.
Book review: Wild Roads - A New Zealand Journey, Bruce Ansley
Author Bruce Ansley cherishes pointing his car along New Zealand's highways and roads.
Ted Dawe: Teen books should reflect real life
Authenticity brings me to where I am today; back before the courts trying to justify the use of what they term as offensive language, writes Ted Dawe.
Banned book picked up by US publisher
A sexually explicit book for teenagers has been picked up by an American publisher - thanks to being banned in New Zealand.
Colouring books for young and old
The library downloads colouring sheets from the many sources on the internet and provides mugs of pencils, but it is clear that there are some addicts
For Oz's big-time comic artist, it's up, up and away
Drawing superheroes such as Superman or Spider-Man for DC and Marvel, is a dream come true for the Australian Nicola Scott.
Groups seeks R14 rating for banned book Into The River
The lobby group that sparked a firestorm over the banning of Ted Dawes' book Into the River says it will apply to have an R14 rating slapped on the novel.
The nature-obsessed kid who became a fierce activist
Tim Winton's new 'meandering memoir' tells how a nature-obsessed kid grew up to become a fierce environmental activist. The famed Australian author talks to Linda Herrick.
Why I invented 'concious uncoupling'
It's the divorce strategy that launched a thousand headlines, and plenty of scorn besides. But is the woman behind the concept - famously adopted by Gwyneth Paltrow - proof that it can work asks Anna Maxted.
Book extract: Message to my girl
32-year-old Auckland doctor Jared Noel had terminal cancer and had just one wish before he died - to meet his first child, his to-be-born daughter.
A story Elise will never forget
A doctor with terminal cancer who revealed that his dying wish was to meet his unborn daughter has published a book posthumously about his journey.
Historic ABs album for sale
An album remembering the 1935 All Blacks team which toured Britain and Ireland is going under the hammer.
'Stale excrement' book review
Morrissey's debut novel has been slated as an "unpolished turd of a book".
Prime Suspect returns
The creator of popular detective series Prime Suspect has created the back story of tough investigator Jane Tennison, writes Stephen Jewell.
Top five favourite NZ novels named
The votes have been tallied from a recent poll on nzherald.co.nz to find readers' favourite novel by a New Zealand author.
Jackie Collins planned to reveal 'secret affairs'
Jackie Collins was planning to reveal all about her "secret affairs" before she died.
Book claims David Cameron took part in obscene act with dead pig
A new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.
Oz author knocks Rowling off book list
An Australian writer has ousted J.K. Rowling from the number one spot of most popular children's books in New Zealand.
Jackie Collins dies, aged 77
Jackie Collins has died aged 77 after a long battle with breast cancer.
Colouring-in craze takes adults back to childhood
They're the colours of contentment, apparently.
Comic goes cosmic on a galactic mission
Dressed in her black stiletto boots and long elegant locks, Gilda Kirkpatrick is not your stereotypical image of a comic book artist.
Banned book may become Hollywood movie
The teen novel Into The River may become a Hollywood movie as news of its banning in New Zealand sparks worldwide debate.