Golden tones make for a perfect addition to whatever colour palette you're already working with. Here are 10 of our favourite pieces to give any room an easy update.

Don't leave them just for dessert time. With their luscious, saucy, high-impact flavours and lighter levels of alcohol, sweet wines can be embraced any time of day.

Seaside motifs and colours offer a new spin on that classic nautical look.

Fresh blue cod, not often seen in Auckland, is the star at a new Federal St venue.

Suzanne McFadden looks at how colouring-in books went from child's play to the top of the best-seller books list.

Titillation and standards are a tricky balance in a world of highly sexualised advertising, writes Alan Perrott.

The Prime Minister wants to bring giant pandas to New Zealand. Greg Dixon asks why stop there?

This is a cross-over novel of "stories within stories within stories". We're told at the start it's written by a supine, seriously-injured survivor of some major disaster.

From East Berlin to war-torn Africa, Frederick Forsyth's Bond-like past shows what made him a natural fit for MI6.

This is Hastings' first sortie into the secret world as he puts the codebreakers' achievements in context by measuring them against competing sources of secret intelligence.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Bestselling novelist Jojo Moyes on how her childhood shapes her popular novels.

It's a hard road finding the perfect chardonnay. But this week I think I've cracked it.

Crisp and classic is the way to go when it comes to summer workwear that can go into overtime.

There's more to decor than neutral hues - so why are we so reluctant to venture into the world of bright hues? Suzanne McFadden asks the experts.

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.

Salman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.

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.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Spanish hams hang from hooks to add to the authentic feel of this central Auckland restaurant.

A writer and sometime stand-up comedian, Verity writes on life, love and a bit of everything.

Syrah might be very sexy, but it is high maintenance. There are few places where this rising star will reach its full potential - but the North Island's east coast is definitely one of them...

Director Geoff Murphy talks to Greg Dixon about fighting bureaucrats, making a film industry, the madness of Hollywood and why he doesn't rate Peter Jackson.

Fort St is Auckland's latest food hotspot and Lucky Buddha is leading the charge.

Vintage florals and day dresses evoke genteel spring days sipping iced tea on the terrace. Cin cin!

The service was just right. Friendly, helpful and we didn't have to wait long for our meals.

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.