This is The Taming of the Shrew retold for more modern times.

Danyl, the protagonist, is back after a six-month absence caused by a misunderstanding with the justice system.

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.

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

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.

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.

An official Unesco City of Literature, Melbourne is also home to 'The Best Bookshop in the World'. In the run-up to its Writers' Festival in August, Dani Wright seeks out the city's best bookish spots.

The 1970s love affair between Meryl Streep and John Cazale saw them both on new acting paths but their journey together ended in tragedy.

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.

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

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

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.

"I'm slightly more blind than Stevie Wonder ... "

Noah is a 4-year-old boy who often wakes screaming from nightmares in which he plays with guns and is held underwater until he blacks out.

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.

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

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

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.