Astonishingly author Kevin Ireland's new book is his 23rd poetry collection.

Rankin and Rebus: growing older together but still on the case, writes Greg Fleming.

Books feature in most rooms, and I've just counted the bookcases.

This is the third book about (mis)adventures of two unlikely friends: a snake and a lizard

The late James McNeish sets out the subject of his final book right from its opening line.

Vietnam War is not past for author Viet Thanh Nguyen, writes Alexander Bisley.

Drysdale told kids in a special assembly "It's cool to read and cool to achieve."

If you picked up a book left behind in Auckland, chances are it came from Emma Watson.

Loss, pain and hope run through NZ writer Bonnie Etherington's first novel.

COMMENT: My father opened our minds to notions, concepts bigger than our mere selves and gifted us with the rules of grammar.

Nicky Hager is again releasing a book in election year, but its subject is a mystery.

Janet McAllister, who's reading her way around Auckland, visits Waitakere Library.

The Auckland Writers Festival is now so big, it's moving some events to a spiegeltent.

Murray Ball let his wonderful characters speak for him, says filmmaker.

Eleanor Catton's new work follows ultra-rich doomsday preppers in NZ.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

New Zealand cartoonists pay tribute to the legendary Murray Ball, who died yesterday after a battle with illness.

A new theory has emerged that iconic author Jane Austen may have died from arsenic poisoning.

A leading world critic of Muslim extremism says New Zealand should establish "assimilation centres" for migrants and refugees from

A poet from Te Kuiti thought her win was a hoax at first.

Greg Fleming reviews a new collection of unpublished poems and writings from the Man in Black many of which read like song lyrics.

The woman who read Auckland, Janet McAllister, visits the Mangere Bridge and Onehunga libraries.

US author Laurie Frankel tells Jennifer Dann how she didn't have to look far for the idea behind her latest novel

It may be the digital age but libraries are coming to a street near you, and they need your books. Made with Funding from NZ On Air.

Lucy Clark on why we shouldn't stress about our children's academic success - or lack of it.

A notebook belonging to Sir Edmund Hillary will be auctioned off after it was discovered in a box of old books donated by the late mountaineer's caretaker.

A poll shows that UK citizens overwhelmingly side with Rowling over Morgan

The celebrated author has had to make the strange request after an unfortunate tweet.

A raunchy novel for teenagers that was banned in New Zealand has won a rare "perfect 10" rating from an American young adult fiction website.

A new book explores the Treaty of Waitangi - at the coalface and where we are headed.