Without intense focus, triple narrative strands can trip readers.

Rosamund Lupton’s new novel explores a deaf child’s world in a thriller about a desperate struggle to find a missing husband in an icy wilderness, she tells Stephen Jewell.

This week To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee breaks her 55-year silence. But who is really behind her new book? Gaby Wood reports.

The big winner at the PANZ Book Design Awards 2015 was Cardboard Cathedral by Andrew Barrie which won the best illustrated and best typography categories of the awards for designer Janson Chau and publisher Auckland University Press.

One of the most anticipated books in the past decade will be released in New Zealand and around the world today.

They've dined with the Queen at Windsor Castle, now the Middletons have had their almost-royal credentials boosted even further.

Want to write a string of best-sellers and spark endless romantic box-office hits? Helen O’Hara talks to the master, Nicholas Sparks.

Lisa Jewell’s latest book is a thriller about a sinister assault on a teenager. She talks to Stephen Jewell.

There’s a neat conceit, albeit an unlikely one, to Joseph Kanon’s new thriller, Leaving Berlin.

Marian remains a compelling heroine, whose many contradictions are all believable — even if, to the long list of men who are smitten by her, we can confidently add the name of Simon Mawer.

It’s 1978 and the inhabitants of Gaialands, an idealist vegan commune in the Coromandel, are living the sustainable dream.

After a 12-month hiatus, the country's premier book awards will return in 2016 with a new structure and an annual fiction prize of $50,000. Do you have a favourite novel by a New Zealand writer?

New BBC period drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell blurs history and magic, explain the cast and creators.

Long-running British music magazine NME is going to be made available for free later this year in a bid to stem its falling readership.

British author Sarah Winman specialises in strange. Her first novel, When God Was a Rabbit, was a wildly eccentric tragi-comedy that became a bestseller.

With her positive messages and dark themes, Louise O’Neill is leading a new wave of young adult fiction that appeals to anxious parents too. ‘We need to be open and honest,’ she tells Sarah Hughes.

Engineer Paul Hardisty, a veteran of working in developing nations, has set his first thriller in Yemen. It’s a novel which raises plenty of questions about real-life, he tells Craig Sisterson.

Almost 30 years later, Morris Bellamy, the pasty-skinned, red-lipped villain of King's new novel, Finders Keepers, takes a less nuanced approach when confronting his own literary hero.

Sean Plunket's comments describing Eleanor Catton as an "ungrateful hua" and a "traitor" were not in breach of broadcasting standards.

There is a real purity to Patricia Grace's fiction. She may be New Zealand literary royalty but her writing is not about showing off her finery.

Author Charlotte Grimshaw talks to Linda Herrick about the strangely familiar characters in her new novel, growing up with her famous father, C.K. Stead, and how a dog named Philip has changed her.

Dr Lance O’Sullivan has made it his dream to change the world from the Far North. But, as Greg Dixon discovers, first he had to change himself.

A couple of years ago, Stephanie Johnson wrote a highly entertaining novel about a writing class at an Auckland tertiary institution.

At a time when the debate over race and racism is raging in the real world, it is perhaps no shock that the same discussion is also swirling in the alternate universe of comics.