At age 80, Willie Nelson is ready to say it all. Little, Brown and Company has announced that the country music superstar has a book deal with the publisher.

It's been 17 years since Bridget Jones's Diary first appeared, turning freelance journalist Helen Fielding into a best-selling author and screenwriter.

Julianne Moore, star of stage and screen, mother of two and successful children's writer, remains the most unaffected of actresses despite her illustrious career.

The claim that Adolf Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker to live incognito in Argentina first gained currency in 1945, when Joseph Stalin spoke of it.

Former Fed Reserve chairman strikes back in a new book at allegations he helped cause the global financial crisis.

New Zealand's Publishers Association has criticised the Dotcom Mega website after it was found that Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries could be downloaded free.

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

David Vann's fourth novel is the story of one weekend in 1978 when three men and a boy go hunting in Northern California.

Australian crime writer Garry Disher tells Linda Herrick why he likes to make his readers wait.

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A new book, My Kennedy Years, brings to life one of the world’s most famous men — from his days as a young senator from Massachusetts, to his family life with wife Jackie Kennedy and children John and Caroline, and his eventual election as the 35th President of the United States of America.

Sports star David Beckham is using brand new technology to bring him closer to fans as he releases his new book.

The Luminaries is in hot demand, with 17,000 copies on back order around the country, after young NZ writer Eleanor Catton became the Booker Prize's youngest winner.

Is the big screen adaptation of erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey inching closer to tying up a leading man?

He was the billionaire crown prince of Silicon Valley, hailed as the most able chief executive of his generation and a visionary model to young entrepreneurs.

The new thriller from Robert Harris has as its hero one of history’s great whistleblowers. It’s a story with plenty of modern parallels, he tells Jon Stock.

The parents of slain farmer Scott Guy have revealed details of a letter they were sent by Ewen Macdonald from prison.

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton has described her embarrassment at growing up without a car or television - but says she later came to thank her parents for it.

Singer Morrissey has confirmed long-running rumours he formed a close relationship with a male photographer in the 1990s.

The Canadians can't have her. Open all the champagne - even if you bought it in the hope of winning a boat race, writes Toby Manhire.

Winning the Man Booker prize was like being "plunged into a bath of ice", Eleanor Catton said.

She was raised in NZ, but our Man Booker prize-winning author suddenly found herself being claimed yesterday by her birth country of Canada.

Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize win puts New Zealand on the "literary map", according to colleagues and students who watched live as the 28-year-old author received the award.

Some of New Zealand's finest authors have congratulated Eleanor Catton on her Man Booker Prize success.

New Zealander Eleanor Catton says she is "absolutely over the moon" after winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize in London this morning.