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

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.

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.

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.

Over the years - and rather unkindly, in my opinion - Joanna Trollope's books have tended to be relegated to the category of "Aga saga".

Stephen Jewell talks to author Andrea Levy about slavery, story-telling and holidays on the North Shore.

Free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives "who lived in squares but loved in triangles"?

Jenny Pattrick conjures up colourful images of Samoan life from a barren room in France.

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.

Penguin revives some popular New Zealand titles to allow a new generation to discover some gems.

The popularity of baking is rising faster than a perfect muffin.

There were years when, as both authors and as publishers, A.H. and A.W. Reed were the main source of Maori myth and legend for New Zealand readers.

If you do happen to get bitten by something Australian, it's a bit late then to read a For Dummies book on the subject, don't you think?

Claims by one of Hollywood director James Cameron's closest collaborators that he was hounded out of New Zealand by an academic witch-hunt in the 1980s are pure fantasy, say those he has accused.