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Social justice advocate Celia Lashlie dies
Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has died this morning after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Advocate for social justice: I'm dying
Acclaimed social researcher and author Celia Lashlie has cancelled all speaking engagements to stay home with her family in Wellington after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Author diagnosed with terminal cancer
Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has terminal cancer.
Books: On the trail of a melody
Kiwi author’s first novel explores fantasy and memories set to a compelling tune.
Confessions of an erotic writer
Award-winning Auckland playwright Elisabeth Easther was once an erotic fiction writer. As Fifty Shades of Grey hits our screens, she reveals the highs and lows of her short-lived career in smut.
Books: The love of Link
I would rather read Kelly Link than breathe. Writing about her is another thing again. I do not know why her new book is called Get In Trouble.
Books: For whom the bell tolls
Debut novel combines writer’s love of music with her love of words, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.
Books: Rich storytelling has ending that satisfies
New Zealand-born Peter Walker has been living in Britain for nearly 30 years now. He's made a considerable reputation as an author there, under as many as six nom-de-plumes, writing well over 100 books.
Twelve Questions: Paula Morris
You're in the running for the Sunday Times EFG prize: How do you wish you could blow the winning 30,000?
Books: Mad fun in animal satire
Orwellian theme conjures up masterly and witty parable for our times.
Potter puzzles answered
JK Rowling has finally answered three very important questions that have been bugging the most devoted of Harry Potter fans for years.
Books: Patience brings its rewards
Back in the familiar rural midwest of her previous novels, Moo, Horse Heaven and A Thousand Acres, Pulitzer prize-winner Jane Smiley presents us with the first volume of a projected trilogy.
Books: Revelation and disintegration
A novel is a place where past and present versions of one person can co-exist, and in his fifth novel Andrew O'Hagan movingly explores the way the "flotsam" of a life can rise to the surface as old age and memory go about their strange and poignant work.
Books: Expert guided tour through rich history
To modern eyes, the little wagon in a Berlin museum looks like a model of an old horse-drawn cart. Solidly made, about as big as a baby's cot, it is in fact a handcart, to be pulled by people, not animals.
Books: Unsettling presence in everyday life
Plaudits to the publisher for their tactile, trim presentation of this small-is-beautiful novella. And to the Australian author herself for a rewarding — and riddling — little read.
Mockingbird sequel draws concerns
The announcement that Harper Lee is to revisit the characters of To Kill a Mockingbird has been greeted with delight and suspicion.
Paula Morris: NZ condemned to margins unless we shift cultural gaze
Many writers resist national labels. Like Salman Rushdie, we'd rather belong to "the boundless kingdom of the imagination ... the unfettered republic of the tongue".
Books: Love and how to forgive
What is normal? And what if you don't fit in with society's idea of it? Those are the issues raised by US author Amy Hatvany's thoughtful and compelling new novel
Paul Cleave: Murders He Wrote
Christchurch crime writer Paul Cleave, whose books have sold more than half a million copies, has no qualms killing people on the page. But now online piracy is killing him, he tells Linda Herrick.
Books: The river runs wild
Lucy Wood’s first novel is a magic realist ghost story set in Devon. Lucy Popescu went there to meet her.
'Kiwis have been generous to author'
The Taxpayers’ Union says Kiwis have done more than enough to support under-fire author Eleanor Catton, who received upward of $50k in funding over the last few years.
'Thorn Birds' author dies
Colleen McCullough, the internationally acclaimed Australian author, has died, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Paul Thomas: Shedding light on 'The Luminaries' stoush
Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries shows she knows a thing or two about astrology, but I doubt she foresaw the stoush triggered by her remarks.
Iconic Wellington book store hit by flooding
A popular book store remains closed after it was flooded today and hundreds of books were damaged.
Hulme quick to back Catton
New Zealand's original Booker Prize winner has defended her successor after Eleanor Catton was criticised for speaking out against the Government and some Kiwi attitudes.
Acquitted uncle tells his story
A man twice acquitted for the sexual violation and murder of his adopted niece says a new book tells the truth about how she died.