Tamaki warns of 'demonic' Harry Potter
According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.
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
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The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.
The woman who read Auckland checks out New Lynn War Memorial Library.
Steve Braunias meets Simonne Butler, who very nearly died in the famous attack in 2003 when P-crazed wretch Tony Dixon went at her with a Samurai sword.
One of New Zealand's biggest authors has revealed she is struggling to adapt her biggest book for TV, saying the story has to be completely changed.
Carrie Fisher has denied criticising the sexual skills of her Star Wars co-star and secret squeeze Harrison Ford.
Former All Black Keven Mealamu continues to draw on art skills.
Celebrated New Zealand writer Sir James McNeish has died aged 85.
After nearly 50 years together, a husband is jailed for life for the strangulation of his wife. Greg Bruce discovers how an ordinary relationship went so horribly wrong.
Ceramic artist John Parker's stunning book encompasses 50 years of his work.
A New Zealand-educated Harvard professor has signed a publishing deal to write a new book on Bob Dylan. University of Auckland PhD
West Coast author Wendy Scott has picked up a second international award for her teen novel Hieroglyph.
COMMENT: Over the past 150 years the New Zealand Wars have always been central to New Zealand's history and even its popular culture.
As we reach - and pass- the age of 50, it is a time to reflect. David Slack says it should not be a time to regret.
Celebrity chef Rick Stein has been on a food-finding tour of European cities, so we don't have to.
Janet McAllister continues her tour of Auckland libraries, visiting the Albany and Glenfield branches.
After The Monogram Murders, her first novel starring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Sophie Hannah was keen to write a second.
Steve Braunias pictures himself living in one of the photographs in his new book - a photo essay about sad, beautiful shops in small towns.
Emma Watson has been hiding surprises for commuters on the London Underground - copies of her book club Our Shared Shelf's latest read.
Jake Bailey inspired the world with an inspirational speech to schoolmates after being diagnosed with cancer. Now, he has signed a book deal.
Ned Bartlett and Jono Corfe travelled the length and breadth of the country to test out the wares at almost 50 of NZ's bastions of community.
Author Jay McInerney admits he shares some characteristics with his protagonist, Russell.