Lady Gaga's forthcoming pictorial book will include images of her in the shower.

Model, film star, now writer: Grace Coddington is set to tell all in her memoirs.

Had Robert Hughes continued with his original aim of being an artist rather than becoming possibly the best-known art critic in the world it is a safe bet he would not have been a miniaturist.

New Zealand writer Tim Radford tells Stephen Jewell why his new book about roots defies genre and how reading Moby Dick can affect one’s sense of place.

When, in 1946, Bobby Troup wrote what became his classic song, Route 66, he could hardly have anticipated how popular it would become.

Geraldine Brooks very nearly missed the inspiration for her latest novel, this month's feature book Caleb's Crossing.

If you haven't already heard quite enough about Rugby World Cup 2011 then this is for you.

Tim Carlsen is an Auckland actor who is performing in Silo Theatre's I Love You Bro, now playing at the Herald Theatre.

Aravind Adiga turns a mirror on Indian society, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Vivienne Plumb's new collection of poetry - beautifully designed by poet and publisher Helen Rickerby - reminds me that poetry books can feel so good in the hand. Plumb's poems have a chance to breathe on the page.

We had the world's politest fight over who got first dibs on the most promising of the new novels on our Fiction Fix hot list this month...

Award-winning Sunday Times columnist Danny Danziger made the inspired decision not to write a book about British soldiers, but to let the soldiers tell their own stories.

Sarajevo, in Bosnia, was the perfect city for a siege. Nestled in a valley surrounded by hills, the people below became easy targets.

Jeffery Deaver tells Stephen Jewell why the new Bond carries an iPhone.

Boston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff was researching a story about World War II when he came across an article in the Chicago Tribune from June 1945. He was stunned.

Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.

Not a travel book as such but just the sort of book I like taking with me when I'm travelling somewhere ... in this case to Greece.

Kiwi music sensation Ray Columbus recently released his autobiography, The Modfather: life and times of a rock 'n' roll pioneer (Penguin, $42).

Dame Fiona Kidman takes a literary trip through time, writes Nicky Pellegrino.