Stephenie Meyer was a Mormon housewife when her novel about vampires spawned a billion-dollar industry. But fame scares her, she tells Chris Ayres

Crime writer Harlan Coben still enjoys confusing his readers, writes Stephen Jewell

The thing I love most about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing is the way she colours in her characters.

Set in Japan and on an island off the Pacific coast of Canada following the Japanese tsunami, A Tale For The Time Being has two narrators, Japanese Nao and American/Japanese Ruth, who are worlds apart yet eerily connected.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has posed topless for a new book celebrating the beauty of nature.

Last Sunday saw Wales deny England a Grand Slam when thrashing them in Cardiff. Twenty-three years ago saw one of the most famous Grand Slams in what was then the Five Nations - and England were again the central protagonists.

Katy Perry has denied rumours that she is planning to write a book about her relationship with Russell Brand.

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Being praised by, among many others, Daniel Woodrell — the author of the bleak Winter’s Bone, which was made into a suitably monochromatic and emotionally grim feature film — shows where Ron Rash’s fiction lies on the graph.

Book clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for Gone Girl, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation

The Franks brothers, famously, are allowed to follow their own training programmes so if All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wanted to get an idea of what they were up to he could do worse than read their new book.

A Kiwi country girl rubs shoulders with British celebs and shows us the good side to cakes and tarts in her debut cookbook

British author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell

Parents are wasting money spending a fortune on books when a small selection of favourites can achieve far better results.

A story that lets its heroine rework her life holds Nicky Pellegrino spellbound.

Alan Smythe is the executive producer of Auckland Summer Shakespeare's 50th Anniversary show, King Lear.