As we age from children into adults, the sheer power of our imagination ebbs away.

When Elizabeth Knox started writing her new novel, Wake, she wanted to take on the challenge of inspiring fear. But, she writes, that evolved into confronting the real-life things that terrified her.

New Zealand Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton will treat Kiwi bookworms to a reading and discussion of her winning work, The Luminaries.

At age 80, Willie Nelson is ready to say it all. Little, Brown and Company has announced that the country music superstar has a book deal with the publisher.

It's been 17 years since Bridget Jones's Diary first appeared, turning freelance journalist Helen Fielding into a best-selling author and screenwriter.

Julianne Moore, star of stage and screen, mother of two and successful children's writer, remains the most unaffected of actresses despite her illustrious career.

The claim that Adolf Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker to live incognito in Argentina first gained currency in 1945, when Joseph Stalin spoke of it.

New Zealand's Publishers Association has criticised the Dotcom Mega website after it was found that Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries could be downloaded free.

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Former fashion Writer Stacy Gregg lived vicariously as a real-life princess while writing her latest book, she tells Suzanne McFadden.

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells Stephen Jewell how one novel became three.

Australian crime writer Garry Disher tells Linda Herrick why he likes to make his readers wait.

David Vann's fourth novel is the story of one weekend in 1978 when three men and a boy go hunting in Northern California.

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A new book, My Kennedy Years, brings to life one of the world’s most famous men — from his days as a young senator from Massachusetts, to his family life with wife Jackie Kennedy and children John and Caroline, and his eventual election as the 35th President of the United States of America.

Sports star David Beckham is using brand new technology to bring him closer to fans as he releases his new book.

The Luminaries is in hot demand, with 17,000 copies on back order around the country, after young NZ writer Eleanor Catton became the Booker Prize's youngest winner.

The new thriller from Robert Harris has as its hero one of history’s great whistleblowers. It’s a story with plenty of modern parallels, he tells Jon Stock.

Although often abusive in nature, the literary work of Fr Rolfe is worth remembering, writes David Hill.

The parents of slain farmer Scott Guy have revealed details of a letter they were sent by Ewen Macdonald from prison.

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton has described her embarrassment at growing up without a car or television - but says she later came to thank her parents for it.

Singer Morrissey has confirmed long-running rumours he formed a close relationship with a male photographer in the 1990s.

The Canadians can't have her. Open all the champagne - even if you bought it in the hope of winning a boat race, writes Toby Manhire.

Winning the Man Booker prize was like being "plunged into a bath of ice", Eleanor Catton said.

She was raised in NZ, but our Man Booker prize-winning author suddenly found herself being claimed yesterday by her birth country of Canada.

Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize win puts New Zealand on the "literary map", according to colleagues and students who watched live as the 28-year-old author received the award.