This full and funny first novel, set around a Rome-based English-language newspaper, comes with faux reporters' room coffee stains on the cover.

New author D.J. Connell talks to Stephen Jewell about her hilarious novel which has been optioned for a film.

Despite her carefully cultivated "woman of the people" image, Oprah Winfrey takes a dim view of any outsider impertinent enough to wonder what makes her tick.

Natasha Solomons skilfully weaves refugee tales into a novel about adjusting to life in a new land.

A book about Samoan tattooing - tatau - records a story that has been 30 years in the making.

Being green doesn't have to mean deprivation and sacrifice. Eco-journalist Francesca Price shows us how.

Novels, for all their categorisation as fiction, must, to some extent, draw on the writer's own experiences. Or they must, at least

Sarah Broom, who has a PhD from Oxford, is the author of a book on contemporary British and Irish poets and has just released her

Dylan Horrocks, author of newly published graphic novel Hicksville, said he grew up in two places: In New Zealand and in comics.

Mitch Albom has realised people are hungry for stories that touch them deeply.

Writer Peter Nowak starts his survey of technology by linking war, porn and fast food - the idea surfaced after he saw the lurid sex tape of Paris Hilton.

McEwan shows us all the fear and loathing of the modern world in a packet of crisps.

Artist Don Binney has been attracted to the Waitakere coast since childhood. He tells Alan Perrott how the diverse landscape can mean so much to so many

Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan tells Boyd Tonkin how a trip to the Arctic helped inspire his new satirical novel about science, scientists and climate change

Author and columnist Nicky Pellegrino has gone public on how she was raped at knifepoint as a young woman - and her attacker was never found.

Drawing on your own experiences for a novel can be a perilous affair, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Author Derek Landy tells Stephen Jewell there's no motive that's more pure than vengeance

The NZ author's story Last Season's Man, beat more than 1150 entries from published authors around the world.