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Four new Mansfield manuscripts found
A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.

The woman who went to bed for a year
What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.

Weekend project: Ready to read
An easy shelving project is the solution for the boxes of books piling up in the house, writes Justin Newcombe.

The diary that destroyed a marriage
British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.

Jodi Picoult and her 16-year-old muse
Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Fiction Addiction: Recommended read - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.

Lead us into temptation: Why we're addicted to cookbooks
Last year we spent almost $12 million on food and wine books. Dionne Christian asks what it is about cookbooks that turns some of us into addicts.

Frolics amid the facts in Skylark
Historical detail steadies a lively yarn set in NZ's early showbiz days.

The book that self-destructs in 60 days
Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.

A grown-up adventure
British author Simon Mawer talks to Stephen Jewell about the truth behind his secret agent heroine and feeling like a tourist in one’s own land.