Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells Stephen Jewell how one novel became three.

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

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

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.

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

Thank you. When I began writing The Luminaries, I was very much in the thrall of Lewis Hyde's wonderful book, The Gift, as I still am.

New Zealander Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize this morning. At 28, she becomes the youngest author to ever win the award.

At 9.45 this morning New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton could win the 50,000 Man Booker Prize for her epic historical novel The Luminaries.

There's a lot about New Zealand that makes it a pretty dreadful place to ride a bike.

She might not be the bookies' favourite, but New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been singled out as one of the likely winners of this year's Man Booker Prize.

From rubbing watercress on the gums to stuffing bread into the ear, there is a cure for virtually any ailment.

This Mr Darcy fan says Helen Fielding's latest offering is annoying and fails to offer any depth or relevance.

A major British retailer has shut down its website after finding hardcore pornographic ebooks being sold through the company's online store.

Bryan and Jo Guy are about to bare their souls over the murder of their farmer son Scott, with the release this week of a heartfelt book.