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

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.

Nicky Pellegrino sees a film sequel in Joanne Harris' latest novel.

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.