When Keith Richards announced he was going to write his autobiography, most people didn't believe the Rolling Stones guitarist could remember enough to justify the $5m fee.

Author Angela Lassig fills a much-needed gap by publishing a book on 25 New Zealand fashion designers.

Music month continues to take over drinking holes and town halls all the way from Ponsonby to Pukekohe this week.

Elizabeth Smither is a prolific and award-winning writer with 17 volumes of poetry, six novels and a number of short story collections published.

Charlotte Grimshaw once described her last novel, Foreign City, as a kind of "layer cake" of fiction, reality and fictionalised reality.

Writer Lionel Shriver tells Stephen Jewell how a friend's illness inspired her to take on the injustices of the healthcare system.

A sort of musical quest through the southern US to see if they're still producing the fresh, exciting, untamed roots music which once inspired the world.

Australian author Tom Keneally talks to Graham Reid about how criminals and the rich were thrown together when the country was founded.

Kiwi star Anna Paquin is being immortalised in a comic book - but some are questioning her cartoon likeness to the real thing.

Charlotte Grimshaw's new novel stars a National Party leader tipped to be the next Prime Minister. Does this man resemble anyone we know? Linda Herrick reports

What do Maori haka, Fijian firewalking and yoga have in common? According to a book by Canadian writer Andrew Potter they are all part of an authenticity hoax.

Pared prose brings mystic peace.

Travel writer and historian William Dalrymple talks to Canvas books editor Linda Herrick about tantric rituals, animal sacrifices and the swirling politics of the Indo-Pakistani region.

From global success with the His Dark Materials series for younger readers, Philip Pullman returns to revisit the Christian story.

Christianity rewritten.

The Morells' son on was the result of a mix-up at a fertility clinic in which another woman was implanted the couple's embryo.

A book for teenagers by an unknown Australian tipped to be the next J.K. Rowling goes on sale here on Monday.

Books about authors who are struggling to write can be overly indulgent and introspective.

Kati Kasza's father instilled in her a love of plants and the importance of seeking quality.

Dame Fiona Kidman is back with a new volume of poetry that traces her Irish roots.

Being a large man taking up a space usually occupied by three Vietnamese, writer Walter Mason was obviously an easily noticed foreign visitor in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon).

Wellington teacher and author Leon Davidson tells Rebecca Barry what inspired him to delve into Anzac history on behalf of younger readers.