Fashion writer Mitchell Oakley Smith has put together a new definitive collection of Australasian fashion designers.

Jonathan Franzen, the literary great who delivered award-winning novel The Corrections, reappears after nine years with a new taste of Freedom.

Welsh town Hay-on-Wye is the perfect spot for bookworms, finds Geraldine O'Sullivan Beere.

As a soldier in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes came face-to-face with war. Thirty years later he has turned that experience into a New York Times best-seller.

Just weeks after a prominent critic proclaimed American literary fiction dead, Time magazine featured a living author on its cover - for the first time in 10 years.

She's gorgeous. She's an acclaimed poet and dancer. She's been praised by Salman Rushdie and Louis de Bernieres. How astonishing is her first novel?

British author Louis de Bernieres has set most of his stories in exotic places, but now, in this interlinked collection of short stories, he explores the exoticism to be found on his home turf.

A new book documenting New Zealand's restaurant history busts the myth that dining out is a recent Kiwi hobby.

Maxine Braham is associate director and movement director of the NBR New Zealand Opera's Genesis Energy season of Macbeth.

Inexperience hasn't stopped Alison Wong from winning literary gold, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Revelations about Gordon Brown and Britain's involvement in the Iraq war emerged in Tony Blair's book, out today.

Paula Byrne says she set out to write this book to redress what she believes is the misrepresentation of Evelyn Waugh as "a snob and curmudgeonly misanthropist".

Two big names in British thriller writing visit New Zealand next week. Craig Sisterson talks to Peter James and Peter Robinson.

Two friends who lead very different lives but have a great deal in common talk to Nicky Pellegrino about their latest book.

Sex & Stravinsky proved to be perhaps her most difficult book yet

Kapka Kassabova's new novel looks at the issue of trafficked animals in South America, a situation which is all too real.

If we want to stop building prisons for men, then first take care of the women, says outspoken author.

Go Fish by chef Al Brown was announced the winner of two categories in the prestigious New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Paula Green reviews three collections of New Zealand poetry.

Drunk and disorderly.

A Downunder odyssey.