Tourettes, real name Dominic Hoey, is a local poet, rapper and spoken word performer. He talks drugs, politics, Grey Lynn and more with Jennifer Dann.

Journalist Nick Davies pulled at a thread and everything unravelled, exposing the British tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Next month he is in NZ for the Auckland Writers Festival.

The Auckland Writers Festival announced this year's line-up of authors last week. Michele Hewitson talks to the festival's director, Anne O'Brien.

Two British actors who have forged successful parallel writing careers will headline the Auckland Writers Festival in May.

Three important writers, all women over 65, were given separate standing ovations yesterday at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Three Australians – cartoonist Michael Leunig, writer John Marsden and artist Rod Moss – chewed over the question of whether their homeland is “The Lucky Country”.

What a treat to see Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith in his packed-out Saturday session.

Eleanor Catton correctly picked John Campbell's star sign backstage before stepping out in front of a record-breaking crowd last night at the Auckland Writers Festival.

When one of the audience asked British architecture critic Jonathan Glancey what he thought of Auckland's Unitary Plan, he pointed to the example of Barcelona.

The Government is "extremely aware'' of the full extent of drone attacks by the United States, it has been claimed.

Danielle Wright talks to the talented folk behind the brand new Family Day at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Five of our most acclaimed writers tell us about the books that changed their lives.

If writers are rock stars, "this man beside me is Johnny Rotten", said Noelle McCarthy by way of sassy introduction of Irvine Welsh last night at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Writer Elizabeth Knox was yesterday awarded a $100,000 grant to write a memoir based on her experiences of violent death and illness in her family - a timely note to kick off the Auckland Writers Festival.

Writer Sandi Toksvig says that full-body exercise has helped to turn her life around.

The poet, playwright and performer shares his travel memories.

Author Shonagh Koea tells Rebecca Barry Hill why she doesn’t stick to the rules.

"Donny Mac was released at Easter time, about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good."

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, now based in Miami, is fascinated by Americans’ eating habits, he tells Stephen Jewell.

The sniper is on a roof-top opposite a playground. He has a child in his cross-hairs.

Books editor Linda Herrick lets you in on her picks of this year's Writer's Festival lineup.

Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith spent a year in Belfast in the middle of the Troubles. Amid the bombs and blasts, he discovered a great love, he tells Linda Herrick.

Stephen Jewell talks to ‘Swedish Agatha Christie’ Camilla Lackberg about her close friendship with her characters, fact being darker than fiction and the myths surrounding her country.

Nicky Pellegrino is a novelist and former magazine editor who moved to New Zealand for love.

David Larsen discovers the intriguing backstory behind cartoonist Michael Leunig’s whimsical birds

Linda Herrick surveys the wealth of names coming to Auckland’s Writers Festival in May.

Did you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?