Cancer survivor Lucy Bennett raised $10,000 for picture panels in Auckland Hospital's radiation department, making treatment a little more bearable.

A mistake that almost cost Nicholas Evans his life helped him craft a novel rich in pathos, as Nicky Pellegrino explains.

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes At The Museum and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.

Artists@Work, a new book by writer Richard Wolfe and photographer Stephen Robinson, offers an insight into the creative processes of 24 painters and sculptors. In this edited extract, Auckland artist Richard Killeen talks about disliking p

The Best Design Awards is a collection of creative excellence for designers and their clients. These are the four Purple Pin (Supreme Award) winners and this years Gold winners in Graphic, Product, Interactive and Spatial Design.

A meeting of Kiwi actors has urged the producers of Sir Peter Jackson's film 'The Hobbit' to meet actors to discuss pay issues.

When the Queen visited Auckland in 1981, Doug Harley spent a week sleeping in the St James Theatre before the Royal Variety Performance.

Best-known for her rollicking blockbuster romances set in the horse-riding world, Jilly Cooper is one of Britain's most-read authors. Robyn Langwell meets the prolific writer at home, a setting straight out of one of her novels.

Much of Hoffman's writing is rich in symbolism and fantasy, and her latest novel, The Story Sisters, is no exception.

An Asian fairytale extravaganza and a well-known witch are ready to entertain the kids these holidays, writes Dionne Christian