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![Book review: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
Like every other book of Stephenson's, this one uses formal language to position itself a small, strategic distance from its readers, like a speaker standing behind a lectern.
![Book review: The Pale North, Hamish Clayton](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: The Pale North, Hamish Clayton
It begins near the end of the 20th century. The Big One has finally hit; on a strangely warm July afternoon, the Wellington Fault tears asunder, and New Zealand's capital is wrecked.
![Book review: Love + Hate, Hanif Kureishi](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Love + Hate, Hanif Kureishi
A grinding, persuasive power binds this collection of short fiction and essays, many of which have been published elsewhere in the past two or three years.
![Book review: Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot
In an age of low-cost carriers, DVT and crappy movies on crappy little screens, we often lose sight of the old-fashioned wonder of flight, writes Winston Aldworth.
![Book review: Sweet Caress, William Boyd](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Sweet Caress, William Boyd
British novelist William Boyd's latest book, Sweet Caress, tells the story of a young female photographer. It is published at the end of the August.
![Author's vivid novel tells story of America gone wrong](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Author's vivid novel tells story of America gone wrong
In Benjamin Markovits' vivid new novel, the city becomes a symptom of America gone wrong. He tells Mick Brown about losing out and fitting in.
![Book review: Terrain, Geoff Chapple](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Terrain, Geoff Chapple
When he founded Te Araroa - the national walkway - Geoff Chapple encouraged us to go out and see the extraordinary beauty of this land of the long white cloud.
![Book review: Zero Zero Zero](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Book review: Zero Zero Zero
Saviano made his name with Gomorrah, documenting the reach of the Neapolitan Camorra. It reaped awards, death threats and permanent police protection, an accolade shared with author Salman Rushdie.
![Why Italian author Roberto Saviano lives in hiding](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Why Italian author Roberto Saviano lives in hiding
Roberto Saviano's exposé of the Mafia earned him an armed guard. Now he's taken on the cocaine trade. Ian Thomson meets him.
![First-class writer with space to roam](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
First-class writer with space to roam
If only commercial realities allowed New Zealanders to enjoy long-form journalism.
![Spook on an English mission](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Spook on an English mission
Stephen Jewell talks to Daniel Silva about the latest outing for his Israeli spy, Gabriel Allon.
![Books: Recent releases July 19](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Books: Recent releases July 19
Without intense focus, triple narrative strands can trip readers.
![Chilled to the core](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Chilled to the core
Rosamund Lupton’s new novel explores a deaf child’s world in a thriller about a desperate struggle to find a missing husband in an icy wilderness, she tells Stephen Jewell.
![Thriller's sinister assault on teenager](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Thriller's sinister assault on teenager
Lisa Jewell’s latest book is a thriller about a sinister assault on a teenager. She talks to Stephen Jewell.
![Revisiting a noir wasteland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Revisiting a noir wasteland
There’s a neat conceit, albeit an unlikely one, to Joseph Kanon’s new thriller, Leaving Berlin.
![Coming-of-age journey captivates](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Coming-of-age journey captivates
It’s 1978 and the inhabitants of Gaialands, an idealist vegan commune in the Coromandel, are living the sustainable dream.
![Turning the heat on the Cold War](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Turning the heat on the Cold War
Marian remains a compelling heroine, whose many contradictions are all believable — even if, to the long list of men who are smitten by her, we can confidently add the name of Simon Mawer.
![Engineer's thriller questions real-life](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Engineer's thriller questions real-life
Engineer Paul Hardisty, a veteran of working in developing nations, has set his first thriller in Yemen. It’s a novel which raises plenty of questions about real-life, he tells Craig Sisterson.
![Stephen King's new moving novel](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Stephen King's new moving novel
Almost 30 years later, Morris Bellamy, the pasty-skinned, red-lipped villain of King's new novel, Finders Keepers, takes a less nuanced approach when confronting his own literary hero.
![Stephanie Johnson on how to make merry mischief](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Stephanie Johnson on how to make merry mischief
A couple of years ago, Stephanie Johnson wrote a highly entertaining novel about a writing class at an Auckland tertiary institution.
![Books: Recent releases June 21](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Books: Recent releases June 21
Author exposes the emotion behind the glitter and the glamour.
![Stanley Tucci releases second cookbook](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
Stanley Tucci releases second cookbook
Actor Stanley Tucci has created his second cookbook. He tells Tim Adams that food is a great way of expressing love.
![James McNaughton's amusing thought-experiment](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
James McNaughton's amusing thought-experiment
In the prevailing climate of heightened risk-aversion among New Zealand book publishers, it’s always a welcome thing when someone is prepared to offer the market something different.