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Craft soda: Top of the pops

You’ve heard of craft beer but craft soda is the drink everyone with a conscience is sipping these days, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Fashion: A light touch

Pastels for autumn? Who would have thought? Sombre tones beware, it’s time to lighten up.

Brunch: Dot, Kingsland

Design: Second wind

Alan Perrott meets two Auckland women with the knack for finding a new life for unwanted objects.

Build them and they will come

State houses seem to be everywhere and it's true - they are spread throughout the country, from Kaitaia to Bluff.

Camilla Lackberg: Crime is on her side

Stephen Jewell talks to ‘Swedish Agatha Christie’ Camilla Lackberg about her close friendship with her characters, fact being darker than fiction and the myths surrounding her country.

Book review: Northanger Abbey

Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey is the second stage of The Austen Project, for which four writers have been invited to produce a contemporary version of a Jane Austen novel.

Book review: The Bright Side of My Condition

The charming title of this book is a quotation from The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe.

Review: Piccoli Piatti, Herne Bay

Herne Bay’s landmark’s newest incarnation delivers an Italian dining experience worthy of many repeat visits.

Words fit for a king

The little-known tale of an Australian 'quack' who helped save the British throne from embarrassment is soon to be released.

Tonight I'm going to be

There is more to impersonating a rock star than grabbing a glitzy jacket, shades and turning up at a karaoke bar. Alan Perrott meets four musicians so devoted to their chosen idol that it has become a part of their life.

Interiors: Custodians of history

An Auckland couple merge their own style with a heritage building.

Heart-throbs and happy endings

There's more to writing a love story than one might think. Rebecca Barry meets aspiring and published authors of the booming romance genre.

From chasing the market to living his fantasy

Fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson tells David Larsen how a dragon on a book cover lured him back to reading and changed the path of his life.

And it's 'goodnight' from him

After 40 years in television, the past 27 with <i>Fair Go</i>, one of the most-recognised faces in New Zealand is bowing out. Kevin Milne talks to Alan Perrott about the rights and wrongs of his escapades and TV ratings.

The coolest guy in the room

He's in cinemas right now playing an FBI agent. But it's been his television turn as <i>Mad Men</i>'s flawed but smouldering Don Draper that made Jon Ham a star - and helped elevate him to the sexiest man alive.

And God created Nigella

On-screen, she's the queen of food porn. But off-screen Nigella Lawson is much messier, grumpier and shyer, she tells Stephen Jewell.

Divorce New Zealand style

Not every marriage is a happy ever after. Roughly one third end in divorce — but they don’t necessarily have to end in tears. Shelley Bridgeman talked to experts and those who’ve been though it to find out how to survive the modern divorce.