As protagonists go, Autumn Laing and I did not get off to a great start.

Marni Kotak gave the performance of her life when she gave birth to baby Ajax in a New York City art gallery recently.

Take advice from the experts and read up on what you can do to save money, in your wardrobe, your home and your pantry.

A stack of promising new novels has thudded onto the Fiction Addiction desk.

Reading Airini Beautrais' new collection, Western Line, fills me with joy - through what words can do and through the avenues poetry makes available.

Suzanne McFadden talks to Kiwi romance queen Michelle Holman about issues and critics.

This 19th century romantic triangle comes to life, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

British novelist Tasmina Perry is the author of Private Lives (Headline, $34.99).

Viva's Zoe Walker explores how characters described in fiction have influenced her through the years.

The blurb on the back of Breton Dukes’ debut short-story collection, Bird North And Other Stories, adds him to an esteemed line of New Zealand exponents of the genre: Frank Sargeson, Maurice Duggan and Owen Marshall.

Reading this very long book is deep immersion in the horrors of the Holocaust, and after a prolonged session readers may have to lift themselves from a state of depression about the human condition.

The Sense of an Ending is the kind of novel you might need to ponder for a few days before coming to any conclusions.

Ex-pat Geoffrey Wilson’s ironic imaginings are fuelled by his youth in South Africa and New Zealand, writes Stephen Jewell.

If I describe this memoir of life on the Kaipara as “charming”, it instantly sounds as if I’m sending it down the Damn-With-Faint-Praise chute. I’m not.