The many facets of England meet in the pages of Graham Swift’s new book, writes Stephen Jewell.

Diving into a book is treasured time all to yourself, but first you have to find that brilliant book.

From mooning a ratepayer to meeting his birth parents at middle age, former Waitakere mayor Bob Harvey has always lived a life less ordinary, as a new biography reveals.

Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton is among the finalists in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

The Hunger Games, Divergent series and The Fault in Our Stars are bringing about a new trend in book sales, Whitcoulls says.

Reconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.

Fred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.

Amazon could be trying the Netflix model for e-books soon - touting unfettered access to more than 600,000 titles for a monthly fee.

My friends would say 'perhaps you're misunderstood'. People say things about me that are simply not true.

"Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood," Harper Lee says.

Man Booker prize winner Eleanor Catton is to publish her first work since landing one of the literary world's most coveted prizes.

It’s full of dazzling prose, it’s ingeniously put together, it’s so long it’s a drag to lug around.

Tina Shaw talks to Rebecca Barry Hill about her connection to provincial New Zealand and why she is drawn to dark crime.

Amazon.com has an offer for authors at the book publisher Hachette, which is embroiled in a fight with the Internet retailer over e-book prices.

You need a book to take on holiday but you don’t want a “summer read”, you want something that will broaden your mind.

The clash between Amazon and Hachette has taken a new turn, as hundreds of authors asked readers to email Amazon's CEO to protest the e-retailer's tough tactics.

In his second novel, Craig Sherborne presents a family of transients, “last of their kind”, who drift along, squatting in abandoned properties dotted across Victoria’s wheat belt.

Breton Dukes has an interesting bio. He has shifted from north to south — from Whangarei to Dunedin.

Publishers are wary of short stories. They don’t sell as easily or pleasingly as novels.

The online abuse aimed at the Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she donated £1 million to the Better Together campaign may have actually been the work of British spies, a senior Scottish politician has claimed.

Ghetto kid turned presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in New Zealand to help celebrate as the Duffy Books in Homes scheme turns 20.