The Red Cross got no money from the high-profile publisher of a book promoted as a fundraiser for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.

It took a hellish long time for best-selling writer Matthew Quick’s overnight success to come, he tells David Larsen.

In the world that Paul Cleave creates, Christchurch is a violent and seedy city, inhabited by kidnappers, jaded ex-cops, and twisted serial killers.

Johno Ryan is doomed, it seems. He's barely out of short pants when his father and his grandfather sit him down and explain that their family are criminals: that's what they do.

A family’s story can be far more tumultuous than any blockbuster, as Linda Herrick discovers in a conversation with author Lloyd Jones.

People who read a lot of novels develop certain discriminations.

Stuart MacBride brings back his leading man in his latest thriller, writes Stephen Jewell.

Church historian and author Peter Lineham is joining us at midday for a chat on his new book Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle.

Rugby superstar Jonah Lomu has criticised his former manager Phil Kingsley Jones in a new book.

A controversial children's novel is being reviewed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.