Nicky Pellegrino finds she wants 'something else' from a writer she admires.

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Being praised by, among many others, Daniel Woodrell — the author of the bleak Winter’s Bone, which was made into a suitably monochromatic and emotionally grim feature film — shows where Ron Rash’s fiction lies on the graph.

Book clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for Gone Girl, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation

The Franks brothers, famously, are allowed to follow their own training programmes so if All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wanted to get an idea of what they were up to he could do worse than read their new book.

A Kiwi country girl rubs shoulders with British celebs and shows us the good side to cakes and tarts in her debut cookbook

Six years ago, Sarah O’Neil was unhappy, unwell and living on one of Auckland’s busiest roads. Now she’s happily feeding her family all year round from her large rural garden south of Auckland. Greg Dixon talks to her about fleeing the city and about livi

British author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell

Parents are wasting money spending a fortune on books when a small selection of favourites can achieve far better results.

A story that lets its heroine rework her life holds Nicky Pellegrino spellbound.

For the past two years, former editor David Hastings has been poring over original pages of Auckland's first newspapers at the Auckland Museum as part of research for his new book.

The next James Bond novel has the world's most famous secret agent living in London's Chelsea section at the age of 45.

If its subject were less illustrious, this memoir would probably receive little attention.

Kiwi bookworms prefer homicide to hanky panky, figures from libraries reveal.

This is very good, with an unusual proviso; this narrative has more routine everyday mountain climbing than anything I've read.