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![Book review: Snake Bite](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book review: Snake Bite
Since the novel Puberty Blues first scandalised the complacent Australian middle classes in 1979, there have been a couple of updates.
![Interview with Eleanor Catton](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Interview with Eleanor Catton
The smartest young writer anyone is ever likely to have coffee with is cosily wrapped in a knitted jumper against the spring freshness.
![Book review: The Young Desire It](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book review: The Young Desire It
As a coming-of-age story, this first novel by a young Australian writer would alarm those who leaped to condemn Ted Dawe's Into The River, which recently won this country's Young Adult Fiction award.
![Lucky break](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Lucky break
Talent and hard work are important but chance plays a big part, economist Tim Harford tells David Larsen.
![Ricky Martin to release children's book](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Ricky Martin to release children's book
The book will be entitled Santiago, The Dreamer in the Land Among the Stars and will be released on November 14 simultaneously in Spanish and English.
!['Mature' warning for teen novel](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
'Mature' warning for teen novel
Controversial children's book of the year Into The River will carry a warning that it is suitable for readers aged 16 years and older.
![Scott Guy book an 'absolute joke'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Scott Guy book an 'absolute joke'
Kylee Guy's sister has dismissed a new book about the 2010 murder of her brother-in-law Scott Guy.
![When good children turn bad](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
When good children turn bad
Novelist Liz Jensen’s latest genre-bending novel, The Uninvited, is a modern ghost story that touches on bigger issues affecting the planet, she tells Arifa Akbar.
![Book review: Let the games begin](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book review: Let the games begin
Consumer Alert: this novel has nothing to do with the Olympics - except for one thing I'll mention later.
![Kiwi's novel flying out the door](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Kiwi's novel flying out the door
Copies of The Luminaries, the New Zealand novel short-listed this week for the Man Booker Prize, are flying off the shelves.
![Personal, revealing memoir exposes Hawking's marriage traumas](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Personal, revealing memoir exposes Hawking's marriage traumas
The painful end of Stephen Hawking's first marriage, and the bitter acrimony of his second, have been described in detail by the Cambridge cosmologist for the first time in his autobiography.
![Too much information](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Too much information
Parental oversharing has become commonplace thanks to social media. Emma Rowley meets the controversial blogger telling proud mums and dads to put a lid on it.
![Book review: Constance](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book review: Constance
Based in New York, British writer Patrick McGrath has published seven novels and two short-story collections.
![Booktrack unveils web studio](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Booktrack unveils web studio
Kiwi technology firm Booktrack is seeking to "ride the self-publishing wave" and has worked with Google to launch a web-based studio where users can add their own soundtrack to novels, short stories or even blog posts.
![Writer, businessman and former cop honoured](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Writer, businessman and former cop honoured
Albert Wendt says he is "really chuffed" to have received the Order of New Zealand insignia that formerly belonged to fellow writer the late Margaret Mahy.
![Red Cross misses out on quake-book money](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Red Cross misses out on quake-book money
The Red Cross got no money from the high-profile publisher of a book promoted as a fundraiser for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.
![Breaking out of his own prison](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Breaking out of his own prison
It took a hellish long time for best-selling writer Matthew Quick’s overnight success to come, he tells David Larsen.