Sometimes, as a reviewer, it pays to wait a few days after finishing a book before beginning the review.

Doggie gumbo, puppy paella, red velvet pupcakes and icy pole bones are a sample of the quirky-named treats in a cookbook created especially for dogs.

Dr. Seuss wrote a little-known adult book about seven medieval sisters who never wore clothes.

If you're a Game of Thrones fan who complains about plot spoilers even though the books have been around for more than 10 years, look away now.

Were the pushy parents of Brooke Shields, Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and other Hollywood stars really as bad as all that, asks Geoffrey Macnab.

You can buy a deluxe edition of this new, independent New Zealand publisher's handsome production, with "Yulong cream paper ... Woodfree real leather ... foil stamping".

S.J. Watson’s ambitious follow-up to his best-seller Before I Go To Sleep delves into the murky world of cybersex, he tells Stephen Jewell.

Known as an actor in TV satire The Thick Of It and as a comedy writer for Veep, Will Smith has written a mystery thriller set in the Channel Islands. It’s John le Carre meets Middlemarch, he tells Alice Jones.

Julia Donaldson’s most famous book, The Gruffalo, has won the hearts of children around the world. During a fleeting visit to Auckland and Wellington, Britain’s best-selling author talks to David Larsen.

To begin a novel with a character who is dead from the very first page is a risk.

Roddy Doyle’s new novel, aimed at people with poor literacy, is inspired by a death in his own family, the Booker winner tells Arifa Akbar.

Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has died this morning after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Acclaimed social researcher and author Celia Lashlie has cancelled all speaking engagements to stay home with her family in Wellington after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has terminal cancer.

Kiwi author’s first novel explores fantasy and memories set to a compelling tune.

I would rather read Kelly Link than breathe. Writing about her is another thing again. I do not know why her new book is called Get In Trouble.

Debut novel combines writer’s love of music with her love of words, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Die-hard fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels have been turned off by Peter Jackson's three-part film adaptation of The Hobbit, according to Kiwi researchers trawling through responses from viewers.

The scrapping of nearly one million book loans to schools each year will let down students who are not prepared for digital alternatives, the Labour Party says.

You're in the running for the Sunday Times EFG prize: How do you wish you could blow the winning 30,000?

Orwellian theme conjures up masterly and witty parable for our times.

JK Rowling has finally answered three very important questions that have been bugging the most devoted of Harry Potter fans for years.

Back in the familiar rural midwest of her previous novels, Moo, Horse Heaven and A Thousand Acres, Pulitzer prize-winner Jane Smiley presents us with the first volume of a projected trilogy.

A novel is a place where past and present versions of one person can co-exist, and in his fifth novel Andrew O'Hagan movingly explores the way the "flotsam" of a life can rise to the surface as old age and memory go about their strange and poignant work.

To modern eyes, the little wagon in a Berlin museum looks like a model of an old horse-drawn cart. Solidly made, about as big as a baby's cot, it is in fact a handcart, to be pulled by people, not animals.

Plaudits to the publisher for their tactile, trim presentation of this small-is-beautiful novella. And to the Australian author herself for a rewarding — and riddling — little read.

The announcement that Harper Lee is to revisit the characters of To Kill a Mockingbird has been greeted with delight and suspicion.