EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Other People's Money</i>It would be very easy in these economically grim times to write novels casting bankers in the harshest of lights - simple moustache-twisting pantomime villains.17 Apr 05:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i>Mixing reality and fantasy with little help given to the reader makes an odd book - but it's no lemon.17 Apr 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook lover: Charlotte RandallCharlotte Randall is a Christchurch-based author whose latest novel, <i>Hokitika Town</i> (Penguin, $30), is on the best-seller list.17 Apr 05:00 PM
TravelTravel book: <i>1000 Great Places to Travel with Kids in Australia</i>It's not always easy to travel with children (or grandchildren) because their needs and interests are rather different.11 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Invisible Bridge</i>Julie Orringer’s first book, a stunning short-story collection entitled <i>How To Breathe Underwater</i>, was a <i>New York Times</i> notable book.11 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>In The Company Of Angels</i>Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.11 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Harlan CobenHarlan Coben is a United States author of best-selling thrillers whose latest, <i>Live Wire</i>, ($39.99 RRP, Orion) was released last month.10 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentDeborah Harkness: Once bitten ...When a serious academic turns her hand to fiction, the result is magic.10 Apr 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City NovelBack in the 1970s Armistead Maupin's <i>Tales of the City</i> columns captured the off-beat spirit of San Francisco. One of Maupin's leading characters was Mary Ann Singleton, a TV presenter. 06 Apr 05:30 PM
EntertainmentPatrick Rothfuss: Making it up as he goesAmerican writer Patrick Rothfuss tells David Larsen why he avoids clichés in both life and literature.06 Apr 05:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Granta 112</i>This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan.06 Apr 05:30 PM
New ZealandMichael Jones Eden Park statue gets green lightContractors Bonding Ltd have stumped up $300,000 to fund the project, which will be on permanent loan to the stadium.04 Apr 11:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Paris Wife</i>Seeing Hemingway through his first wife's eyes is an intriguing view.03 Apr 05:30 PM
Media and marketingSelf published thriller writer makes a killing on KindleSelf-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.03 Apr 05:30 PM
EntertainmentWhere danger always lurksWorks from the gothic vault suggest some some deep premonitions of disaster.01 Apr 10:31 PM
EntertainmentChildren's literature prize for Australian Oscar winnerAustralian illustrator Shaun Tan's life in recent weeks has been as fantastical as his children's books.29 Mar 10:13 PM
OpinionWinston AldworthForward Thinking: Womad's world of differenceWinston Aldworth looks back an a fantastic weekend of music in New Plymouth.23 Mar 08:30 PM
EntertainmentA city perfect for dreamers and killersThriller writer Robert Crais talks to Craig Sisterson about the allure of Hollywood and turning an enigmatic sidekick into a leading man.20 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Box</i>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.20 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Love And War In The Apennines</i>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.20 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Michelle LangstoneActress Michelle Langstone shares her secrets as a bookworm.20 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>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.19 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMichele Hewitson Interview: Jeffrey ArcherJeffrey, Lord Archer, to the photographer: "Isn't she awful?" Me, to the photographer: "Isn't he awful?"18 Mar 04:30 PM
