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![Book lover: Lisa Gardner](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book lover: Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is a US mystery suspense author whose latest novel is Catch Me (Headline).
![A devious tale follows the man from Primrose Lane](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
A devious tale follows the man from Primrose Lane
A convoluted crime yarn disorients but enthralls Nicky Pellegrino.
![Author gets to know an ancestor](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Author gets to know an ancestor
Carroll du Chateau talks to writer Stephanie Johnson about her special bond with her latest subject.
![Poetry review: Dear Heart](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Poetry review: Dear Heart
Dear Heart takes its title from a poem by Michele Leggott addressed to her dead mother and is a pointer to what makes Green's collection different from its predecessors.
![Book Review: A Perfectly Good Man](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: A Perfectly Good Man
Lenny is "a perfectly unremarkable 20-year old who just happens to be in a wheelchair". He's there because of a rugby accident and he doesn't want to live any more. So he kills himself, in front of a parish priest.
![Why an expat author won't base his story in NZ](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Why an expat author won't base his story in NZ
Expat Kiwi author Adam Christopher tells Stephen Jewell how his superhero novel was born and why he won’t base a story in New Zealand.
![Feeling like Martha Stewart at a dainty little cafe](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Feeling like Martha Stewart at a dainty little cafe
Viva takes tea with Little & Friday - the little cafe that could.
![Bad sex and terrible deeds abound at writers festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Bad sex and terrible deeds abound at writers festival
May’s Writers and Readers Festival has a diverse lineup of international guests to tempt lovers of all genres, writes Linda Herrick.
![Book Review: Narcopolis](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Narcopolis
If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don't have to work too hard.
![Book Review: Out Of It](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Out Of It
Tumbling tresses, midnight-pool eyes, alabaster brow. None of these features in the debut novelist's publicity photo should be held against her.
![Book Review: Perlmann's Silence](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Perlmann's Silence
Those who are nervous about speaking in public usually have the perfect way out. They simply don't do it.
![Fiction Addiction: What's wrong with NZ novels?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: What's wrong with NZ novels?
Bronwyn Sell likes to give her books away, and usually it's not a hard sell. But any mention of a New Zealand author sparks a doubt in her friends.