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Dining in with a master chef (+recipe)
Martin Bosley's new cookbook means his incredible dishes are yours to sample from the comfort of home.

Travel book: <i>Wild New Zealand From The Road</i>
It's hard to think of a better guide to our wild places than Gordon Ell.

The cook and the baker (+recipes)
A Kiwi cook and a global baker have cooked up a recipe for simple but tasty home meals.

Whole lotta love
A new book paying homage to five decades of live music in New Zealand is proof, says one contributor, Herald entertainment editor Russell Baillie, that every generation has gigs to remember.

Book Review: <i>Hand Me Down World</i>
Lloyd Jones' new novel will unavoidably face the towering legacy of Mister Pip: international acclaim, a Man Booker short-list placing, awards, local admiration, sales and a degree of controversy.

Book Review: <i>The Weekend</i>
I suppose expecting a writer to match the impact of The Reader, Bernhard Schlink's extraordinary novel of a few years ago, is asking too much of him.

Man who recorded legends of the ball
This extract from a book on Sir Terry McLean portrays TP as a wily and trusted rugby commentator.

Bookings pour in for new Harry Potter
With three weeks to go until opening night, tickets for the special midnight screenings are selling fast

Book Review: <i>Scribble, Scribble, Scribble</i>
For those readers who do not regularly encounter the New Yorker, Guardian, Financial Times, and others it may come as a surprise to find historian Simon Schama finds time away from writing best-selling books.

Tim Wilson: made in Manhattan
TV One's New York correspondent Tim Wilson might have spent much of the last decade reporting some of the world's biggest stories but somehow he's found time to write his first novel, too. Stephen Jewell spoke to him in New York.

Painful truths from the cutting edge of comedy
Comedian Sarah Silverman has never been afraid of causing offence with her foul-mouthed stand-up routines. Now her frank autobiography has won plaudits from the most unlikely quarters, reports Paul Harris.

The events that led to the final choice
German author Johanna Adorjan tells Cathrin Schaer about researching her grandparents’ life and death.

A guide to guidebook realities
The latest Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand came out the other day with the usual flutter of controversy over descriptions of the Bay of Islands as over-hyped, Hamilton as dull and Kiwis as eager-to-please.

A slice of heaven (+recipes)
Forget takeaways - now you can make your own authentic pizza with recipes from an Italian expert.