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.

New Zealand's top publishers offer their picks for this year's best summer reading.

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

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.

Like one of Field Marshal Haig's family whiskies, Max Hastings is a dram that steadily improves with age.

What a character arc Jean Batten's life offers.

As we age from children into adults, the sheer power of our imagination ebbs away.

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.

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells Stephen Jewell how one novel became three.

Australian crime writer Garry Disher tells Linda Herrick why he likes to make his readers wait.

David Vann's fourth novel is the story of one weekend in 1978 when three men and a boy go hunting in Northern California.

The new thriller from Robert Harris has as its hero one of history’s great whistleblowers. It’s a story with plenty of modern parallels, he tells Jon Stock.

Although often abusive in nature, the literary work of Fr Rolfe is worth remembering, writes David Hill.

There's a lot about New Zealand that makes it a pretty dreadful place to ride a bike.

Bill Bryson tells Stephen Jewell he is drawn to American subjects in his writing.