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Travel book: <I>The Great Kiwi Motorhome Guide</I>
This book is full of information about what to look out for when buying or renting a motorhome.

Book Review: Currawalli Street
I hate calling a book “charming”, but Christopher Morgan’s narrative deserves the adjective.

Nora Roberts in defence of romance
Nora Roberts is one of the world’s best-selling authors. However, the literary establishment has mostly been indifferent to her success.

Book lover: Paul Torday
UK author Paul Torday opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

Suspense ... where is it in this Aussie thriller?
Nicky Pellegrino feels let down by an Aussie thriller that needs oomph.

Fiction Addiction: Six hot new novels (+photos)
The publishing year has cranked up in earnest and the bookshops are beginning to fill with rows of tempting new reads, many of them debuts. Here are our picks for February.

Book Review: The Auschwitz Violin
The Auschwitz Violin features an extraordinary moment in the life of Daniel, a Jewish violin-maker imprisoned at Auschwitz.

Book Review: Jack Holmes And His Friend
Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.

Book Review: Burning Bright
In this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget.

Book lover: Pearl McGlashan
Shorty St actress Pearl McGlashan opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

Opinion: Dickens was always a struggle
According to Claire Tomalin, his latest biographer, children no longer have the attention span to read Dickens. The author was born on February 7, 200 years ago.

Fiction Addiction: Are e-books a threat to society?
E-books are a threat to justice and responsible self-government. Apparently. And here’s naïve old me thinking they were just convenient tools for reading escapist novels.

Divided Auckland: NZ tax on rich among lowest in the world
A new book has found total tax rates on the incomes of rich New Zealanders are now...

Fiction Addiction: Is Pure the new Twilight?
The post-apocalyptic young adult novel hasn’t yet been released in America, and already the movie rights have been sold, and Twilight producer Karen Rosenfelt has been hired to take it to the big screen.

Travel Book: <I>Organic Explorer New Zealand</I>
There's no doubt that a lot of travellers want to feel that they're doing their bit to save the planet.

Tinnitus: When the music stops
A rare condition left critic Nick Coleman unable to hear the music he adored. Here, he explains how he learned to listen again.

Fiction Addiction: Books for fans of Downton Abbey
Hanging out for your Downton Abbey Christmas Special fix this Wednesday? You’re not alone.

Book lover: Gwendoline Smith
Gwendoline Smith is a psychologist and the author of several books.

Under the spell of Marilyn Monroe
The movie on Marilyn is out soon, but the book has intrigued Nicky Pellegrino.

Rage against the machines
Anthony McCarten's sequel to his novel Death of a Superhero charts a grieving family's retreat into the world of computer games. But the implications of teenagers immersed in games of mass murder really worry him

The harsh words you have to hear to get motivated
It's much easier to find the motivation to chill out with a glass of red wine or take a bubble bath than it is to pull on your sneakers and work up a sweat. That's where The Grit Doctor comes in.