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.

A new book covers the former First Lady's marriage and years in the White House, as well as the 1960 campaign and JFK's thoughts on a second term.

Thirty years after the Korean War, an American veteran and an Asian woman are still confronting the conflict that briefly brought them together.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.