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.

Greg Fleming reviews Ben Sanders' second American-based novel Marshall's Law

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

Anthony Horowitz has penned his first original novel for adults in more than a decade.

Our picks of 2016's best illustrated non-fiction books.

A Roald Dahl classic comes to the Auckland stage.

Annabel Gooder reviews the latest sci-fi and fantasy books and points out some of the year's best reads.

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

Jim Eagles and Mark Fryer pick 2016's best non-fiction books.

Kids books for Christmas reviewed.

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.

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

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.