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<i>Review:</i> Tigers At Awhitu
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
On the edge of the world
Dylan Horrocks, author of newly published graphic novel Hicksville, said he grew up in two places: In New Zealand and in comics.
Beyond the plot
Mitch Albom has realised people are hungry for stories that touch them deeply.
How sex, food and war drive technology
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.
Dark times as chickens come home to roost
McEwan shows us all the fear and loathing of the modern world in a packet of crisps.
Essence of the wild west
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
Imaginative rationalist
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
Writer: I was raped at knifepoint
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.
Risky business
Drawing on your own experiences for a novel can be a perilous affair, finds Nicky Pellegrino.
A wizard detective in battle royale
Author Derek Landy tells Stephen Jewell there's no motive that's more pure than vengeance
CK Stead wins inaugural <i>Sunday Times</i> short story award
The NZ author's story Last Season's Man, beat more than 1150 entries from published authors around the world.
Heights of bad attitude
Anita Shreve is fascinated with relationships. And this story, which explores a new marriage set against the backdrop of Africa, puts yet another relationship under the microscope.
A modern predicament
Over the years - and rather unkindly, in my opinion - Joanna Trollope's books have tended to be relegated to the category of "Aga saga".
Delving into heritage makes a harrowing read
Stephen Jewell talks to author Andrea Levy about slavery, story-telling and holidays on the North Shore.
The enrich list
Forget the mundane, give your life meaning ... become enthused and inspired. We meet people who have followed their hearts, and share simple ways to fuel your fire for life.
Proving a point
Sharon Osbourne talks to Stephen Jewell about getting revenge on the literary critics.
Bloomsbury Set archive released
Free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives "who lived in squares but loved in triangles"?
Pacific creations
Jenny Pattrick conjures up colourful images of Samoan life from a barren room in France.
History in the making
Oozing with creative talent and entrepreneurial flair, leading designers Chris and Helen Cherry share their story in the Angela Lassig's new book, New Zealand Fashion Design.
Literature within the reach of all
Penguin revives some popular New Zealand titles to allow a new generation to discover some gems.