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The diary that destroyed a marriage
British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.
Jodi Picoult and her 16-year-old muse
Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.
Fiction Addiction: Recommended read - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.
Lead us into temptation: Why we're addicted to cookbooks
Last year we spent almost $12 million on food and wine books. Dionne Christian asks what it is about cookbooks that turns some of us into addicts.
Whangarei: Artistic adventure at the museum
Whangarei's centre does away with the staid image of art, writes Jim Eagles.
Children's books getting bleaker - study
Heroes in children's books face darker times today than those in the past, say academics after conducting a study.
Frolics amid the facts in Skylark
Historical detail steadies a lively yarn set in NZ's early showbiz days.
The book that self-destructs in 60 days
Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.
A grown-up adventure
British author Simon Mawer talks to Stephen Jewell about the truth behind his secret agent heroine and feeling like a tourist in one’s own land.
Tenets of a talented writer reach out
Nicky Pellegrino sees a film sequel in Joanne Harris' latest novel.
Chocolat author's appetite for change
Her first two novels failed to sell and her next three weren’t even accepted by a publisher. So how did Chocolat author Joanne Harris become an international best-seller? She talks to Stephen Jewell about food, religion and her latest novel.
Dita De Boni: Where passion runs shallow
"Mommy porn" - it's more emetic than erotic.