Looking for something absorbing to read over New Year? You’ve come to the right blog.

Does it exist, what is its raison d'être - and do the answers lie in the stars?

We have the idea that the celebrity cult is a modern phenomenon. But when Charles Dickens visited America in 1842 he was surrounded by cheering crowds wherever he went.

It's said that you are as sick as your secrets.

Jeff Kinney, American creator of the phenomenally successful series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, talks to Lisa O’Kelly about how he juggles his life and hobby

The boldest travel writing crosses every frontier of genre as well as place.

An offbeat thriller with dementia as a theme absorbs Nicky Pellegrino.

Characters in good books have a way of lingering long after the final page is closed. For author Charlotte Wood it was, Stephen, from previous novel, The Children, who worried her so much she wanted to see him progress through the next stage of his life.

Max Cryer's books are published worldwide. His latest is Preposterous Proverbs (Exisle).

With Christmas almost here, Canvas book reviewers take the hassle out of gift-shopping with ideas for all ages and tastes.

New Zealand's own favourite food writer dishes the dirt on what it's like to be a bookworm.

The characters, once they finally arrive, are great, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Mirabel Osler, as one friend has said of her, "could make a shopping list seem lyrical".

The default opening for any review of a Neal Stephenson novel is the "cult author, but not really" explanation. Here's how it goes.