EntertainmentBook lover: Michelle LangstoneActress Michelle Langstone shares her secrets as a bookworm.20 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.19 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMichele Hewitson Interview: Jeffrey ArcherJeffrey, Lord Archer, to the photographer: "Isn't she awful?" Me, to the photographer: "Isn't he awful?"18 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Daughters-In-Law</i>As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better. 14 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentThe shape of things to comeBernard Beckett tells Graham Reid about writing for the savvy teens of today.14 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Hokitika Town</i>Charlotte Randall is an award-winning New Zealand author whose novels reflect someone utterly in love with the potential of language.14 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAccepting sons' wivesBritish author Joanna Trollope, who is in Auckland next week, talks to Stephen Jewell about her new book and the trouble with raising boys.14 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Our Tragic Universe</i>Scarlett Thomas has penned a chatty, delightful easy read about friendship, love, and making those hard, life-defining choices.14 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentDreams come trueChildhood memories and an inspiration from the past are part of the rich tapestry of themes woven into Kim Edwards' novel.12 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Wulf</i>The genesis of this startling first novel is already en route to becoming a New Zealand literary legend.09 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory ChurchIf you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.08 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentPoetry Reviews: Fossicking in the pastPaula Green reviews three new volumes of poetry from New Zealand writers.07 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love StoryAfter creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of <i>The Arrival</i> have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.06 Mar 04:30 PM
RetailAuthors write their own paychequesIt is a truism in the publishing industry that very few Kiwis get rich by writing a book.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With CareProgramme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</i>A sickbed obsession culminates in moving musings about the beauty of our world. 06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>Though Sue Orr's new collection of short stories, <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>, references short stories by literary greats such as Nikolay Gogol (<i>The Over Coat</i>) and James Joyce (<i>The Dead</i>), don't hold that against it.06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).02 Mar 01:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Remember Nothing And Other Reflections</i>For women of a certain (or uncertain) age, remembering nothing is not difficult. Remembering something is more problematic. Thus, women of a certain age will be enchanted by Nora Ephron's take on memory, or lack of it.01 Mar 04:30 PM
