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The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Poet Robert Sullivan turns to myth and history in a soaring new collection, and more.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

A poet documents her life in a memoir that doesn't shy away from the details, and more.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

A new short story collection imagines a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and more.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Sit back to Chris Tse's new poems, including "Karaoke for the end of the world".

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Indulge in Gigi Fenster's book you will be thinking about for days after you finish it.

Spy fiction's new golden age - the page-turners to read now

Times: The Cold War is back - and spy novelists are having a blast.

"It is a fish, yet we have to pretend it isn't"

In Lloyd Jones' new novel, a family contends with the birth of an unusual child.

Book review: A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp

A novel taking its cue from a 1934 novel.

Book review: Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

The Amazon effect on small businesses

There is something irresistible about reading another person's diaries

The very first page of writing is inscribed 'Diary: For Myself and No Other'.

Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking talks with Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey

Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking talks to Matthew McConaughey about politics, lockdown and life while promoting his new book ‘Greenlights’. Video / Newstalk ZB

'I leaked a JK Rowling secret, and all hell broke loose'

I got my hands on an advanced copy of her book. The next day, #RIPJKRowling was trending.

New Twilight book slammed for glorifying domestic violence

A disturbing theme in Bella and Edward's love story has fans up in arms.

2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

It's the biggest night on New Zealand's literary calendar - and this year, organisers have had to be creative about how to hold the annual Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Three lit classics to read in lock down

Greg Fleming recommends some classic literature to get you through the lock down.

Book review: Charity Norman's The Secrets of Strangers

Greg Fleming reviews Charity Norman's new novel.

Book reviews: Crime fiction round up

Greg Fleming on the latest in crime fiction - including Steph Cha and John Grisham.

Stars of our own heavenly show

This treasure is one we have lost our connection with says author Naomi Arnold.