Growing up on navy bases, Laini Taylor always wanted to write. She tells David Larsen about the blue-haired girl with an unusual collection who helped her realise her ambition.

Una has lung cancer, and just days to live. "I have friends and family ... I have money.

Graeme Lay's sequel to his best-selling novel, The Secret Life of James Cook, wisely follows the same approach as before.

At last, the original Ponsonby village, at the Herne Bay end of the road, is making a comeback.

Danielle Wright talks to the talented folk behind the brand new Family Day at the Auckland Writers Festival.

In her second short story collection, her first in 15 years, Lorrie Moore peels back life’s outer layer and reveals what lies within.

The old cliche says you can take the man out of his birthplace but you can't take the birthplace out of the man.

Mum's kitchen Four of our favourite Federal St chefs tell us how their mums cooked with love.

In a Canvas exclusive, Eleanor Catton talks to Professor Jim Al-Khalili about physics, life, the universe and everything.

It’s all go at this family-friendly cafe full of soul.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Colour Purple, Alice Walker, talks to Margie Thomson about the state of American politics, poetry — the lifeblood of rebellion and the richness of a life connected with nature.

I feel pretty confident that this first book by Seattle-based Kim Fu will be the only novel you read this year with an Oriental-Canadian trans-sexual protagonist.

Sharp tailoring, mixed with boyish insouciance, maketh the man.

They’re the kids born totally wired, the first generation who will spend their whole lives in a world where the planet’s accumulated wisdom is available instantly at the touch of a finger. And the first of them have just left school.

Best-selling author Matt Haig, 38, is about to have two more books published. Here, he explains how he only started writing to cope with his sudden, life-threatening depression.

The menu was packed with an array of French, gourmet brunch options.

What’s your lucky number? Alex Bellos conducted an online survey and discovered a hot favourite: people find the number 7 clever, cheery and divine.

Author Shonagh Koea tells Rebecca Barry Hill why she doesn’t stick to the rules.

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, now based in Miami, is fascinated by Americans’ eating habits, he tells Stephen Jewell.

"Donny Mac was released at Easter time, about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good."