Books editor Linda Herrick and her reviewers select the best for all ages and interests

A colonial scrapbook and journal assembled by an officer who was at critical battles in New Zealand's early history go under the hammer next week.

The grave of a leading New Zealand poet is at risk from a highway.

A Kiwi performance artist is perplexing tourists by holding yoga poses in front of well known European monuments.

He is an artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and for siting thousands of coloured umbrellas across valleys in Japan and America.

A wistful biography of Escoffier leaves Nicky Pellegrino hungry and sad.

The Royal NZ Ballet's season of Giselle is wowing audiences with its revitalised version of the classic story of love, betrayal and revenge. Raewyn Whyte reports.

Kiwi-born Melbourne-based chef Ben Shewry, author of a new cookbook, impresses with his food philosophy.

Actor-cum-writer Simon Callow tells Stephen Jewell about his fascination with two very different famous literary icons — and how they share one crucial trait.

Handel would have been heartened by Viva Voce's Solomon on Sunday, one of the finest of his oratorios, cannily written to appeal to the tastes of his (and all) time.

Giant calendar will be part of festive trail.

Bach's D minor Double Violin Concerto is a score of peerless beauty, its many contrapuntal threads woven with inevitability and rightness.

Current and upcoming listings from galleries in the Auckland area.