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Travel writing: Peaks and pavements
The boldest travel writing crosses every frontier of genre as well as place.

Book Review: Forecast: Turbulence
The turbulence of the title keys us into the parts weather and water play, but that turbulence also works on a metaphorical level.

Peek into a point of view
Nicky Pellegrino checks out a pithy perspective on self-improvement.

Fiction Addiction: Q&A with Charlotte Wood
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.

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

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

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

Devil in the detail of a Nora Roberts novel
The characters, once they finally arrive, are great, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Book Review: The Rain Tree
Mirabel Osler, as one friend has said of her, "could make a shopping list seem lyrical".

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

Fiction Addiction: Introducing Animal People by Charlotte Wood
Many of us go through the daily grind, but sometimes, even those ordinary moments add up to an extraordinary and life-changing day - that's the premise of December's feature book, Animal People.

Alice Hoffman's tale of heartache and history
The epic scale of a tragic story numbs and grips Nicky Pellegrino.