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!['I am interested in bad behaviour'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
'I am interested in bad behaviour'
Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst is not noted for his prolific output, so a new novel is always a great event. And his latest could be his best yet.
![Bathed in ancestral light](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Bathed in ancestral light
A new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.
![Fiction Addiction: The Larnachs - fact or fiction?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: The Larnachs - fact or fiction?
The historical novel is history-lite, the easiest of entrées into another time and place.
![Book Review: <i>Carte Blanche</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: <i>Carte Blanche</i>
Do you tire of the people who always bang on about how much better the book was than the movie? Well, you can rest easy if this James Bond yarn is ever committed to screen.
![Book Reviews: <i>Sport 39</i> and <i>Landfall 221</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Reviews: <i>Sport 39</i> and <i>Landfall 221</i>
James K. Baxter wrote once (I paraphrase from lapsed memory and lost book) that most authors like to picture their words being read by grave scholars in studies and beautiful graduates in tutorials.
![Fiction Addiction: Introducing 'Lost in Shangri-La'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: Introducing 'Lost in Shangri-La'
There are two kinds of readers - those who peek at the last page and those who wouldn't dream of it.
![David Whitehouse: Tales of the unexpected](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
David Whitehouse: Tales of the unexpected
Nick Duerden talks to writer David Whitehouse and his agent about the difficulties of getting a book published.
![Book lover: Owen Marshall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book lover: Owen Marshall
Owen Marshall is one of New Zealand's leading fiction writers. His latest novel is The Larnachs (Vintage, $39.99).
![New future for printed books that smarten up their act](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
New future for printed books that smarten up their act
The publication of The Waste Land app marks the end of the beginning.
![Whitcoulls - the next chapter](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Whitcoulls - the next chapter
In an exclusive interview, the book and stationery chain's new owners tell Karyn Scherer about their plans for one of the best-known names in NZ retailing.
![Alleged confession in Kahui inquest](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Alleged confession in Kahui inquest
The inquest into the deaths of the Kahui twins has heard evidence of an alleged confession from Macsyna King from a former partner. The twins died of head injuries at the Starship hospital in 2006.
![Kiwi to direct Twilight follow-up film](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Kiwi to direct Twilight follow-up film
Expat New Zealand director Andrew Niccol is working on a sci-fi film written by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.
![Fiction Addiction: Review: The Conductor](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: Review: The Conductor
It can be a good or a bad thing if you finish a novel wanting more. In the case of Sarah Quigley's The Conductor it's both.
![Book Review: <i>Train To Budapest</i> & <i>The Silent Duchess</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: <i>Train To Budapest</i> & <i>The Silent Duchess</i>
The latest novel from one of Italy's most eminent writers follows a young journalist from Florence as she sets out into Eastern Europe in the mid-1950s.
![Charlaine Harris: Energised by the supernatural](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Charlaine Harris: Energised by the supernatural
Stephen Jewell talks to American author Charlaine Harris about why readers must not confuse her True Blood novels with the television series.