Dylan Horrocks, author of newly published graphic novel Hicksville, said he grew up in two places: In New Zealand and in comics.

Mitch Albom has realised people are hungry for stories that touch them deeply.

Writer Peter Nowak starts his survey of technology by linking war, porn and fast food - the idea surfaced after he saw the lurid sex tape of Paris Hilton.

An autobiographical insight into musician Patti Smith's early life and years in New York

McEwan shows us all the fear and loathing of the modern world in a packet of crisps.

Artist Don Binney has been attracted to the Waitakere coast since childhood. He tells Alan Perrott how the diverse landscape can mean so much to so many

Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan tells Boyd Tonkin how a trip to the Arctic helped inspire his new satirical novel about science, scientists and climate change

The revivification of the Auckland Town Hall organ has certainly captured the imagination of the city.

Drawing on your own experiences for a novel can be a perilous affair, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

The NZ author's story Last Season's Man, beat more than 1150 entries from published authors around the world.

Portion sizes in depictions of the most famous meal in history - the Last Supper - have ballooned over the past millennium, a study shows.

Anita Shreve is fascinated with relationships. And this story, which explores a new marriage set against the backdrop of Africa, puts yet another relationship under the microscope.

Over the years - and rather unkindly, in my opinion - Joanna Trollope's books have tended to be relegated to the category of "Aga saga".

Forget the mundane, give your life meaning ... become enthused and inspired. We meet people who have followed their hearts, and share simple ways to fuel your fire for life.

Stephen Jewell talks to author Andrea Levy about slavery, story-telling and holidays on the North Shore.

There was no mistaking a historic occasion when Aucklanders packed the Town Hall to sample its newly restored organ.