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Books for mum to unwrap
Nicky Pellegrino picks the best reads to give (and receive) this Mother’s Day.
Nicky Pellegrino picks the best reads to give (and receive) this Mother’s Day.
Best-selling author Matt Haig, 38, is about to have two more books published. Here, he explains how he only started writing to cope with his sudden, life-threatening depression.
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.
I do not read a lot of noir crime fiction which, on the face of it, means I should not be writing this review — well, on the face the book presents after a few dozen pages, anyway.
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.
Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey is the second stage of The Austen Project, for which four writers have been invited to produce a contemporary version of a Jane Austen novel.
The charming title of this book is a quotation from The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe.
No continent is left out in this roll call of diverse and wonderful sites.
David Larsen discovers the intriguing backstory behind cartoonist Michael Leunig’s whimsical birds
Many contemporary male novelists, particularly comic ones, are incapable of depicting an unsympathetic female character.
Hyperbole often surrounds big novels, especially big novels from New York about New York and by New Yorkers, but in Gilbert's case it is all justified.
American novelist Gary Shteyngart tells Alexander Bisley why he likes to combine hilarity, sadness and introspection.
Could Britain have avoided World War I? Historians Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson have presented rival views on the BBC.
Linda Herrick surveys the wealth of names coming to Auckland’s Writers Festival in May.
An Arabic scene of dunes and camels was the backdrop for a diverse literary event, writes Linda Herrick.
Nearly 200 years after her death, Jane Austen has become one of the most widely read authors in history. Kerrie Waterworth finds out why she continues to appeal, generation after generation.
It is not easy to decide which lie Helen Dunmore was talking about when she titled her new book.
British-based writer Tom Rob Smith tells Stephen Jewell how real life drama inspired his new novel in a way that disturbed him far more than he expected.