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Book review: The Last Word
Consider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author.
Consider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author.
Fledgling Auckland writer Ben Atkins talks to Craig Sisterson about the crime novel he has been working on since he was 15.
Extensive footnotes make this hard to follow, as Nicky Pellegrino discovers.
Walt and Judy, of 1970s small-town Vermont, can't conceive a child. For all their mutual tenderness, life has become just "a collection of gestures and habits". So they adopt.
Miranda Carter read history while at Oxford and came to writing after a career in journalism.
The wealth gap is provoking much contemporary anxiety. But the financial imbalance between, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and the Big-Mac slinger is a shadow of that which existed between the first American capitalist barons.
Hope and hopelessness make a funny yet thoughtful combination, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.
New Zealand's top publishers offer their picks for this year's best summer reading.
Alex Robertson reviews two Lonely Planet titles aimed at the younger members of the family.
British writer Tom Cox has attracted an avid following through his blogs and books about living in the Norfolk countryside with a gang of cats. He talks to Linda Herrick