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Book catalogues highs and lows
Don Brash has just finished writing a book evaluating his successes and failures.
Sport: The write stuff to buy
Sports books are a great Christmas buy. Andrew Alderson and Dylan Cleaver, two great devourers of the genre, offer 11 good reads (and one not so good) for this year.
Travel books for kids
Alex Robertson reviews two Lonely Planet titles aimed at the younger members of the family.
Best books of the year (+infographic)
Books editor Linda Herrick and her team of reviewers reveal their top reads for all ages and tastes.
Readers become the authors
A novel approach to reading has kids blogging and commenting online about what should happen next in books - and authors follow the instructions.
Paws for thought
British writer Tom Cox has attracted an avid following through his blogs and books about living in the Norfolk countryside with a gang of cats. He talks to Linda Herrick
Morrissey fans confused at no mention of male lover
Morrissey has left fans in the US baffled after his best-selling memoir was released Stateside minus the details of his relationship with a male photographer.
Asterix family legacy battle
Albert Uderzo, co-creator of the Gallic comic book hero Asterix, is suing his daughter and son-in-law for "psychological violence" to stop them "getting their hands" on his legacy.
Bad Sex in Fiction awards
An ecstatic bisexual orgy, which climaxes against a backdrop of imminent nuclear annihilation, has secured the prized Bad Sex in Fiction award for Manil Suri and his novel, The City of Devi.
Travel book review: <I>45 South</I>
This book is a view through the lens of Austrian-born photographer Arno Gasteiger, taking the journey east to west along the 45th parallel.
100 years of the crossword
As the centenary of the crossword approaches, Gyles Brandreth and his daughter Saethryd explain why the word puzzle is still so popular.
Love in the face of death
Former TV host Helena McAlpine and boyfriend Chris Barton share their extraordinary love story with Suzanne McFadden.
How Dotcom wooed his wife
In this exclusive extract from a new book written by David Fisher, Kim Dotcom relates how he met his future wife Mona - and the efforts to woo her.
'Selfie' named as word of year
Australia can now take credit for the term "selfie" - Oxford Dictionaries' international word of the year for 2013.
NZ's best wine buys (+WIN!)
The red and white wines that will give you the best bang for your buck have been revealed in the 22nd edition of a Kiwi vino guide.
Bertie forced me to cheer up
Normally gloomy Sebastian Faulks is enjoying the abuse he’s had for daring to write a pastiche of his boyhood hero, P.G. Wodehouse. Sarah Rainey reports.
Eleanor Catton criticises CK Stead
Man Booker prize-winner Eleanor Catton has criticised one of NZ's foremost literary figures on his comments on the Roast Busters scandal.
Sitting on a time bomb
By November 18, 2010, there was just enough progress at Pike to reassure some workers that the operation could yet be a success, but not enough to ease the dark fears held by others.
How I got two top Kiwi stars together
It's been a week since a tweeted picture of Lorde and Eleanor Catton reading in bed together in New York became a world-wide hit.