Strange songbirds and dark secrets are plentiful in Cassie Hart's new horror novel.

Sleeping with Stones is an adept poetry collection spanning the realms of grief

Crime and personal essays are lockdown fodder for Eleanor Black

John Boyne delivers a novel of dark humour and cutting observations

She's a Killer is intended as an alarm for a New Zealand in environmental crisis.

A collection of stories to savour by an award-winning writer

From New York to Wānaka: The inspiration behind her new cookbook with mum Annabel.

Joy Watson's books have resonated with thousands of children and their parents.

Only a handful of the stories stretch out longer than a page (and, even then, barely).

A picture book for adults

Sonya Wilson on her books, aimed at all ages

Paul Little looks at a new version of a well-known Māori myth collection

How a shy teenager became a sporting great - and a headline magnet.

Times: Author also reveals how he inadvertently helped finance an attempted coup.

'Story and books are a vehicle of how we communicate between generations.'

Annette Lees evokes the power of the night

The joy of reading to students and the politics of question time

The co-editor of Skinny Dip is renewing my vows with New Zealand literature.

Bee lovers come together in word and image

The first poetry collection from Janet Newman goes beyond contemporary farming.

Owen Eastwood found a sense of belonging by being an outsider

In Samira Sedira's People Like Them, issues of class, race and jealousy are at the fore.

The stunningly strange states of Paige Clarke's short story collection She Is Haunted.

Debut novel sees two distinct women offering their sides of the same story.

A debut novel with pitch-perfect narrative

Sally Rooney on why sex in literary fiction is a turn-off and not much fun to write.