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The 20 best new crime thrillers to read this year
From Coben to Coles... we pick 20 criminally good new thrillers.
Everest Inc. author on the fall of Kiwi guiding and the mountain's biggest myth
Superhuman achievement or package holiday on a rope?
Bella's Books - the melting kiss for Canvas
Wellington teenager Bella Fraei reviews Millie Bobby Brown's debut book Nineteen Steps. Video / Canvas
'Savage': The rugby book review that's turned sour; TV editor's debate plan; MediaWorks to reveal finances
Top ad boss on awards, pitches; NZME lures Stuff exec; Farewell to a journalism giant.
After solo travel inspiration? These 5 books should top your list
Kindle your solo travel journey with these wanderlust-filled reads.
Canvas: Bella's Books: The Other Brother
Wellington teenager Bella Fraei reviews The Other Brother by Jax Calder. Video / Canvas
'She's the real deal isn't she': verdict on Catherine Chidgey's 'Pet'
'A skilfully written and chilling book, Chidgey is indeed the real deal.'
Joe Bennett: My favourite work from late novelist Martin Amis
Columnist Joe Bennett on the best work of late novelist Martin Amis.
A celebration of mums filling pages with delight
Milla and her grandmother Rose explore all the wonderfully different, yet often familiar mums on display in Sarina Dickson's new book, Mumapalooza: A Celebration of Mums. Video / Ella Wilks
The Gubyllub: Kindness as a cure to bullying
A rhyming children’s picture book about combatting bullying
Why Harry Potter series is a literary masterpiece
Opinion: JK Rowling is more than a lightning rod for controversy.
Children's book educates about animal cruelty
A local writer shares what inspired his book.
Birnam Wood review: Fair is foul, and foul is fair in world of eco-thriller
Kiran Dass reviews Eleanor Catton's new novel
Paul Little: : Edward and Wallis Simpson wrote their memoirs long before Harry and Meghan
The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson kicked off the family's publishing mini-boom.
Book review: The Wandering Nature of Us Girls
The new book of flash fiction by Frankie McMillan
Beach study gives a journey back into social memory
David Herkt reviews New Zealand at the Beach
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Reviews of new books and a conversation with author/illustrator Jean Donaldson
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Mel C talks to Eleanor Black, quick questions with poet laureate Chris Tse.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Plus Owen Marshall answers 5 Quick Questions.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Tragedy and trauma are at the core of Lauren Roche's debut novel.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Sit back to the rise and fall of counterculture, and other glacially cool writers.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
A dystopia set in 2041 and an examination into future family ties
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Including a witchy rom-com and the latest literary crime thriller from J.P. Pomare.
Dominic Hoey: 'This place is a lot darker than it is advertised overseas. They just get Lord of the Rings and Jacinda'
Dominic Hoey's new novel confronts 21st century Aotearoa and some social truths.
New children's books have a woke problem
Claire Alfree explores the modern political minefields of children's books.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Sit back to David Trubridge, Keri Hulme and three-ingredient recipes.
Winter reading: Bitingly good books to curl up with
New Zealand's drinking culture, the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack, and pirates.