Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.

This journey along State Highway 1 show that the nation's backbone is a place of life as well as an inanimate stretch of bitumen, writes Alex Robertson.

Ian Wedde retraces his childhood steps from Blenheim to Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and Jordan, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Sequel continues the adventures of lovelorn Asperger's hero.

Society must not forget Henry VIII was a child abuser and wife killer, author Philippa Gregory tells Stephen Jewell.

Liane Moriarty’s latest novel is a darkly comedic tale about a trivia night death, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Elegant writing takes us through the highs and lows of a woman’s life.

Sarah Waters’ new novel explores what happens when an ‘unruly passion’ in the form of two lodgers enters a house. She talks to Linda Herrick.

Oh, to write like Alan Bennett. The consummate modulations of mood and structure. The utterly English urbanity and self-deprecation.

Martin Amis is a child of the 20th century, both literally and by literary preoccupation. He was born in the aftermath of World War II and grew up in the shadow of the unholy trinity of great ideologies — fascism, communism and capitalism.

A bestselling author who sells books by the million, Jennifer Weiner is on an almighty mission to get ‘chick lit’ the serious attention she believes it is due.

When author Johnny Wray was a lad at school in the 1920s, his form master was most disparaging of his writing, describing it as: “Conglomerations of facts occasioned by heterogeneous concatenations of stupid irrelevancies.”

In keeping with the almost impermeable wall that prevents a healthy transtasman book trade, Helen Garner is relatively unknown in New Zealand.

I'd love to meet John Crace. The Guardian columnist is acerbic, focused, appallingly funny.