American writer Patrick Rothfuss tells David Larsen why he avoids clichés in both life and literature.

Contractors Bonding Ltd have stumped up $300,000 to fund the project, which will be on permanent loan to the stadium.

Seeing Hemingway through his first wife's eyes is an intriguing view.

Self-publishing has traditionally been a surefire route to obscurity and dismal sales. Now a British thriller writer who sells his novels as ebooks for as little as 71p ($1.50) is proving the naysayers wrong.

Works from the gothic vault suggest some some deep premonitions of disaster.

Winston Aldworth looks back an a fantastic weekend of music in New Plymouth.

German Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass always weaves some kind of magic through his stories and, in the case of his autobiographical work, this further blurs the demarcation line between his facts and his fictions.

It was 1956 and Eric Newby, the man who would become one of Britain's most admired travel writers, was stuck in a fitting room with a designer, a model and a lady with a mouth full of pins.

Thriller writer Robert Crais talks to Craig Sisterson about the allure of Hollywood and turning an enigmatic sidekick into a leading man.

Actress Michelle Langstone shares her secrets as a bookworm.

Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.

As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better.

Bernard Beckett tells Graham Reid about writing for the savvy teens of today.

Charlotte Randall is an award-winning New Zealand author whose novels reflect someone utterly in love with the potential of language.

Scarlett Thomas has penned a chatty, delightful easy read about friendship, love, and making those hard, life-defining choices.

British author Joanna Trollope, who is in Auckland next week, talks to Stephen Jewell about her new book and the trouble with raising boys.

Childhood memories and an inspiration from the past are part of the rich tapestry of themes woven into Kim Edwards' novel.

The genesis of this startling first novel is already en route to becoming a New Zealand literary legend.