After decades of estrangement from her father, Susan Faludi received an email: he was now a woman. Could they rebuild their relationship?

On a chilly, rainy day, it's tempting to escape to the baking heat of Australia.

It sounds almost too extraordinary to be true: a Kiwi advertising executive makes a pilgrimage across the byways of China, where tourists are rarely seen, and tracks down a long lost son of Mao Tse Tung.

Helen Brown enjoys Sylvia Patterson's memoir, I'm Not With the Band.

The Flintstones are back but they look totally different and they're also kind of anti-Flintstones.

We now know what the houses are, who they're for, and how you get in - plus the history of how the US school got started.

Dr Seuss wrote a book for adults about a man in a bowtie who is wheeled through a hospital

COMMENT: We've just passed a milestone with 12 million books given out on our Books in Homes literacy programme.

Julian Fellowes mines the past but is not constrained by it, writes Stephen Jewell.

Jennifer Dann meets an author whose book is inspired by violence but defined by humanity.

Christchurch-based writer Heather McQuillan is the winner of this year's National Flash Fiction Day competition.

Karl Stead is like a grand old sideboard in the dining room of New Zealand literature.

Novels about painters and paintings have been in vogue recently.

Paul Dini has turned a tragic night of fear into an instantly-classic graphic novel.

The plight of an 11-year-old girl at Te Puea Marae with a love for reading has prompted a donation of more than 200 books.

They're calling it a revolution in the way we read - and it's not some new piece of technology.

Elizabeth is a husk of a woman. She feels nothing. Why she continues to live baffles her.

Foodies and home cooks will love these four new reads.

Richard Fairgray has less than 3 per cent normal vision, sees the world in two dimensions and is legally blind but is New Zealand’s highest-selling comic book writer and artist.

Call it a case of life imitating art. Copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird have become hot property at Auckland libraries.

John Hart talks to Craig Sisterson about the roller coaster road to publication of his latest thriller.

When I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.

What a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.

From rampaging dinosaurs and Maori myths to Shakespeare and social issues, our best writers for children and young adults tell stories about them all.

In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.

A comic book creator and real estate heir has been accused of torturing and murdering his girlfriend in Hollywood.

This year's big important NZ rock book has arrived and it's by the guy who founded Flying Nun. Here, he comes Clean about why and how he wrote it.

COMMENT: Sometimes I can confront my grief - walk right into the physical and emotional pain - but at other times I simply know I'm not up to the task.

When a driver ran through a stop sign, killing 12-year-old daughter Abi two years ago today, Lucy Hone used research into grief to try to ease the pain.