The hard questions for British author
British writer Cath Weeks talks to Jennifer Dann about life on the brink.
British writer Cath Weeks talks to Jennifer Dann about life on the brink.
Wiremu Heke, known as Billhook, leaves his Otago home in 1825 with regret in his heart and vengeance in mind.
Since winning the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre has often been forced to come clean about past difficulties, such as his shady
Ian McEwan's narrators have often been edgy, fractured, disturbed or disturbing, but none has come near the voice that drives his latest novel.
Mountain bike enthusiast Russell Baillie reviews the dangerous new tome from Lonely Planet.
COMMENT: I've loved the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling for over 10 years, but now, for the first time, I feel disappointed with her - and it hurts.
A person could so easily be attracted to this book by its cover. But no, we mustn't judge.
When Chris Gayle foolishly sleazed on cricket journalist Mel McLaughlin, he became Australia's public enemy one.
Joe Hill's latest work has post-apocalyptic optimism, writes Stephen Jewell.
Annie Proulx's new epic story stretches far and wide and south, writes Dionne Christian.
This hot love story from an American author, set on a freezing continent, has touches of New Zealand occasionally. The setting is
Written six years ago, the Israeli writer's novel is a disquieting mix of apocalyptic and quotidian, incongruous career jealousies in a time of national blood-letting.
Justin Cronin's readers can't easily put him down, writes Dionne Christian.
Danyl, the protagonist, is back after a six-month absence caused by a misunderstanding with the justice system.
On a chilly, rainy day, it's tempting to escape to the baking heat of Australia.
It sounds almost too extraordinary to be true: a Kiwi advertising executive makes a pilgrimage across the byways of China, where tourists are rarely seen, and tracks down a long lost son of Mao Tse Tung.
Karl Stead is like a grand old sideboard in the dining room of New Zealand literature.
Novels about painters and paintings have been in vogue recently.
Elizabeth is a husk of a woman. She feels nothing. Why she continues to live baffles her.
Noah is a 4-year-old boy who often wakes screaming from nightmares in which he plays with guns and is held underwater until he blacks out.
When I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.
What a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.
Zhang's bleakly lyrical first YA novel brought a cascade of admirers and superlatives; now comes this intricate narrative of adolescents in all their vulnerability, idealism and savagery.
From the sure hand of historian Joan Norlev Taylor comes the tricky manoeuvre of binding fact and fiction into a convincing historical novel.
"Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present," says one of Lionel Shriver's characters in her latest novel set in a dystopian America of the near future.
Graham Swift's consummate novella fills a day, 90-plus years ago post-World War I, when the servant class are free to visit their families.