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School of hard knocks
Hope and hopelessness make a funny yet thoughtful combination, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.
Armistead Maupin: Willing to be honest
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City have delighted readers for four decades and brought gay life into the mainstream. Now the ninth book brings the series to an end. Hermione Hoby reports.
Travel books: Around the world from cover to cover
While the summer holiday season is still going strong, there's nothing better than whiling away the hours with a good travel book. Linda Herrick reviews a selection of the latest.
Escape to the world of words
New Zealand's top publishers offer their picks for this year's best summer reading.
Travel books for kids
Alex Robertson reviews two Lonely Planet titles aimed at the younger members of the family.
Paws for thought
British writer Tom Cox has attracted an avid following through his blogs and books about living in the Norfolk countryside with a gang of cats. He talks to Linda Herrick
Bertie forced me to cheer up
Normally gloomy Sebastian Faulks is enjoying the abuse he’s had for daring to write a pastiche of his boyhood hero, P.G. Wodehouse. Sarah Rainey reports.
Book review: Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
Like one of Field Marshal Haig's family whiskies, Max Hastings is a dram that steadily improves with age.
Book review: Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide
It's almost a tradition for birders to complain about their field guides: a particular variation of plumage.
Book review: Wake
As we age from children into adults, the sheer power of our imagination ebbs away.
Horror: How to respond
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.