Stephen Jewell meets the award-winning South African author of a thrilling tale of murder ... and baseball.

Partly autobiographical novel is a potential winner of awards, predicts Nicky Pellegrino.

Sarah Dunant's trio of novels set in Renaissance Italy cemented her reputation as one of the great writers of historical fiction.

Most of Nicolas Rothwell's books and journalism offer lyrical, subjective evocations of northern Australia and its indigenous people.

The first book by Australian author Lucy Neave, Who We Were is a very restrained sort of thriller.

Lea Michele has landed a book deal.

An author who pens stories the length of a sentence has scooped this year's Man Booker International Prize.

I feel privileged and honoured. The recurring fear is: Have I wasted my life writing?

A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations fetched 150,000 pounds (NZ$227,415) at auction.

I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards lining the lecture hall, ready to tackle the day’s equation.

The final day of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was bookended by standing ovations for two of New Zealand's ground-breaking writers of the past 50 years.

JK Rowling's own copy of the first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', adorned with her illustrations and comments, is to go under the hammer.

The big issue with writers' festivals is that you can't be at three or four events at once. So the rich array of offerings presented the ongoing dilemma of which writer to see.

I am fortunate enough to spend more time in my happy place than anywhere else. My happy place is my office/library. It's on the ground floor of our three-level townhouse in Ponsonby.

New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: The Commonplace Odes and Three Regrets And A Hymn To Beauty.

Wellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.

One of the more startling observations in a book filled with acute and startling observations is that Africans only really come to consider they are “black” when they go to the United States.

Rutherfurd, whose new tome is called Paris, had an extra hour added to yesterday's Writers & Readers schedule after selling out tomorrow and recalled having to speak to a row of schoolboys scowling at him.

The city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British historian William Dalrymple.

Dan Brown sees the world a little differently than the average person.

Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more enchanting on his upcoming visit here on Wednesday.

Nicky Pellegrino is captivated by a 'how-to' with a plot.

Graham Reid talks to Australian writer Wayne Macauley about food porn and creativity.