From Earth's End tells the tumultuous story of the outrageous talents and idealistic publishers who created the Kiwi comic industry, writes Robert Smith.

As a new edition of the all-powerful Michelin Guide is published, Neil Tweedie delves into the secret world of the restaurant inspectors who wield the power to award or withdraw those coveted stars.

In all good bedtime tales, the deal is that the beautiful princess ends up with a handsome hero and they live happily ever after - right?

As we age from children into adults, the sheer power of our imagination ebbs away.

When Elizabeth Knox started writing her new novel, Wake, she wanted to take on the challenge of inspiring fear. But, she writes, that evolved into confronting the real-life things that terrified her.

New Zealand Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton will treat Kiwi bookworms to a reading and discussion of her winning work, The Luminaries.

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.

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.

Former fashion Writer Stacy Gregg lived vicariously as a real-life princess while writing her latest book, she tells Suzanne McFadden.

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.

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.

Although often abusive in nature, the literary work of Fr Rolfe is worth remembering, writes David Hill.

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.