The new Harry Potter play will become a new Harry Potter book, it was confirmed today.

Jennifer Dann finds out what audiences can expect from New Zealand's first LGBTIQ Literary Festival this month.

Best-selling author Marian Keyes tells Jennifer Dann why she hates the term chick-lit and how she baked herself out of depression

A summer reading programme run by Auckland Libraries has helped more than 12,000 children keep on top of their reading over the long holiday break.

EXPLOSIVE NEW CLAIMS: Book says Scott Watson is the person who killed Olivia Hope and Ben Smart.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction

Today on the anniversary of his death, Emma Michelle and Anne Maxwell reflect on how JD Salinger's writing first influenced the world and how it continues to do so now.

Smiling broadly and chatting happily as she signed cookbook after cookbook, Nigella Lawson charmed hundreds of fans in Invercargill yesterday.

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is in Invercargill today. We look at similarities and differences between the South Island city and her home in London.

Domestic goddess charms fans who braved the summer heat to meet her in Auckland.

Please add the name of Elizabeth Harrower to the embarrassingly long list of authors I should have read years ago.

Do you stand out from the crowd. A new book details how you can.

She's best known to the world as a writer of Indian food books, however, as Madhur Jaffrey tells Michele Kayal, her first love is the theatre.

"Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1825, "and I'll tell you what you are."

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo has to be one of the most useful books ever written, Paul Little writes.

Sinclair McKay is enthralled by superb histories that chart mankind's flirtation with global disaster.

Young liberals have made a video of Israelis and Palestinians kissing each other in response to a book being banned.

If you love Game of Thrones, don't nag George R.R. Martin to finish the books, writes Alyssa Rosenberg.

WATCH: Declutter guru Marie Kondo's magic tricks will help you tidy up your life - and improve your folding.

The eagerly anticipated sixth Game of Thrones novel won't be released before the sixth HBO series airs in April, but Martin has left spoilers about what we can expect.