Does 'Kiwi' architecture exist?
Does the country have designs it can point to and say 'oh, that's so New Zealand' and claim it for our own?
Does the country have designs it can point to and say 'oh, that's so New Zealand' and claim it for our own?
A family photograph taken before a Christmas Day massacre holds a telling clue of why the slaughter took place.
Design writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins has been a Herald, Listener and Home magazine contributor and hosted The Big Art Trip on television.
Not even 24 hours after Kiwis unwrapped their annual Christmas haul, almost 8,000 unwanted prezzies are being hawked off online.
The travel writer Colin Thubron tells John Preston what drives him to the world's most remote outposts.
Book extract by Diana's former bodyguard reveals the moment the Princess met 'love rat' James Hewitt and addresses those Harry rumours.
1 When were you last embarrassed? I'm embarrassed all the time. I've thought about it quite often and wonder if it's a form of depression
If you're looking for a gift to keep a sport-lover absorbed over the festive season, Andrew Alderson has had his reading light on to sift out a few gems.
In 1970s' New Zealand, real men played rugby, not rock, writes musician Nick Bollinger.
Our picks of 2016's best illustrated non-fiction books.
Anthony Horowitz has penned his first original novel for adults in more than a decade.
A Roald Dahl classic comes to the Auckland stage.
Dionne Christian reviews the latest kids' chapter books and points out some of 2016's best.
Annabel Gooder reviews the latest sci-fi and fantasy books and points out some of the year's best reads.
An initiative keeping children learning over the six weeks of summer break is attracting more interest than ever.
Siobhan Harvey reviews recent poetry books and picks favourites from the year.
Jim Eagles and Mark Fryer pick 2016's best non-fiction books.
In light of John Key's announcement that he will resign as Prime Minister of New Zealand, we take revisit some crucial moments throughout his leadership.
Today I'm using my pen (computer actually) as a wand to defend Harry Potter. I know I wrote about Brian Tamaki a few weeks ago but
According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.
Farmer Stu Muir talks to Matt Philp about transformation and taniwha.
Erri De Luca won the award for his novel The Day Before Happiness.
Commonwealth writers have no chance of beating US 'big hitters', claims 2011 Booker winner Julian Barnes.
Acclaimed author and illustrator Donovan Bixley shares tales of the books that inspired him.
Johnny Marr: I'm not going to have my life story sullied by some bullshit agenda. I'll tell it really how it was.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes faces his fears - and writes about them, anyway.
First-time author Jonothan Cullinane puts the 1951 Waterfront Strike front and centre of his critically acclaimed crime novel
Are these the best New Zealand books of the year?
Joe Goldberg's your average, cantankerous New York rare books seller. He's also an accomplished serial killer. When we meet him