And what do you for a job? asked Chris Cox of one of the six whom he had dragged up on stage for the grand finale.

A new biography about talk show host Oprah Winfrey reveals more through what it cannot say.

A collection of paintings that have caused art aficionados to turn a deep shade of purple are to go on show.

Readers will need both stamina and stomach to get through Lionel Shriver's 480-page So Much for That.

Gretchen La Roche and Andrew Uren fashioned a graceful weave, in scurrying toccata at times and elsewhere exploring the beat of blurred dissonance.

This full and funny first novel, set around a Rome-based English-language newspaper, comes with faux reporters' room coffee stains on the cover.

New author D.J. Connell talks to Stephen Jewell about her hilarious novel which has been optioned for a film.

Natasha Solomons skilfully weaves refugee tales into a novel about adjusting to life in a new land.

A tragic Romeo and Juliet-ish love story unfolds against the backdrop of a prosperous feudal family.

Ashley Brown and pianist Michael Houstoun have few equals as a team.

For a woman knocking on 70, King lights up damn bright and her voice was denser and richer than its younger counterpart.

Bassoonist Ben Hoadley is a man with a mission - to explore and add to the catalogue of woodwind music written by New Zealand composers.

A book about Samoan tattooing - tatau - records a story that has been 30 years in the making.

Being green doesn't have to mean deprivation and sacrifice. Eco-journalist Francesca Price shows us how.

Novels, for all their categorisation as fiction, must, to some extent, draw on the writer's own experiences. Or they must, at least

Sarah Broom, who has a PhD from Oxford, is the author of a book on contemporary British and Irish poets and has just released her

Textile designer Ingrid Anderson has come a long way from screen-printing her own teatowels to save money.