Chris Cleave’s novels closely shadow real-life events. He tells Stephen Jewell how his latest, Gold, about two female athletes competing at the Olympics, almost suffered a major technical setback.

A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.

What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.

British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.

Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.

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's centre does away with the staid image of art, writes Jim Eagles.

Heroes in children's books face darker times today than those in the past, say academics after conducting a study.

Historical detail steadies a lively yarn set in NZ's early showbiz days.

Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.

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.