Lisa Tamati will run the length of the country - 2,200 km - in just 33 days. That's the equivalent of 52 marathons in just over a month.

Political commentator and academic Ranginui Walker says people these days think he has mellowed - but he reckons he hasn't changed.

An Australian wine writer's latest book recommends several New Zealand wines, some of which had not even been bottled when it was released.

An American woman confesses to being an "abortion addict" after terminating 15 pregnancies in 17 years.

Nicky Pellegrino discovers Michelle Holman is just as funny as the people she creates.

'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.

A few years ago, cooking was foreign to Penina Petersen. Now the New Zealand-born mum is hoping to change the way we shop, cook, eat and live.