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.

What, actually, are First World problems? And why are they somehow of less significance than, say, Third World problems?

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

We all need to accept that we will grow old and stop shaming women for 'letting themselves go'.

Complementary shirt and tie combinations elevate a humdrum suit to the next level.

Put on your ‘meat-eatin’ shoes’ for a great meal out.

The menu is split into two - one side brunch, and the other side leaning more towards lunch-style options.

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

I want to know what is going on in people's heads as they shuffle towards me, on the footpath, engrossed in the device they hold in their hand.

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

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.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow’s Canvas magazine. Get your premium glossy weekend magazine in tomorrow’s Weekend Herald.

Try out these wines, recommended by writer Yvonne Lorkin, for winter.

July already? Good grief! Instead of contemplating where the year has gone, think about what to drink this weekend.

Mid-winter weekend getaways beckon, so dress for ease.

In a not-so-trendy part of town is an eatery offering exciting modern European cuisine with flavours from Bangkok to Texas.

If the weather's right, you can opt to pack a basket with cheese and antipasto and enjoy a picnic on the grassy property.

I really look after myself and am pretty, have hair extensions, acrylic nails, a spray tan, implants, false lashes but all the guys I meet want only one thing.

Hayley Holt is back and stronger than ever, celebrating two years sober and considering a life in politics.

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.

Simon Briggs talks to the world’s number 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, about refusing to follow the pack, and breaking free from Federer and Nadal’s shadow.

It has been some time since my last communique from here, deep within The Zone. You remember The Zone, right?

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow’s Canvas magazine. Get your premium glossy weekend magazine in tomorrow’s Weekend Herald.

Here are three great Canvas reads you don't want to miss.

Prince Harry is right - selfies have to stop. Writer Alice Audley turned her back on them and says her life is better for it.

Assemblage, tirage, remuage, disgorge and dosage — all fundamental steps in the formulation of our favourite fizz ...