Weekend's pick for 2016's NZ book of the year.

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.

Catherine Smith savours some of 2016's best food books.

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.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction and points out some of the year's best reads.

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.

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

Local Boards across Auckland have confirmed which libraries will be open during the four days between Christmas and New Year.

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.