This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.

The German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

This book does contain all the practical information you'd need to walk the tracks but really it's more a source of inspiration

It's hard to pin down Jane Smiley's style as each new book is so different from the last.

Plenty of buzz in the publishing world surrounds this sprawling, post-apocalyptic novel that's being heralded as one of the year's big releases.

Trail riding is increasing in popularity in New Zealand.

A vivid portrait of a time and a place, I can see exactly why UK author Amanda Craig's sixth novel was longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.

Whitcoulls has entered the e-book fray with a new reader, as Amazon continues to ignore New Zealand with its popular Kindle.

To lose one personal fortune might be considered bad luck; to lose two looks distinctly careless.