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?

If you loved watching benign British drama in the 1970s, you'll love The News Where You Are.

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.

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.

Hilary Thayer Hamann's novel, Anthropology of an American Girl, has been heralded as both the hottest book on the block and as the worst novel ever.

Large and small business must embrace green concepts to help the bottom line, say authors of a new book.

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

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.

If your job seems a bit humdrum, what should you do? If you're anything like these two Auckland creatives, you self-publish something that combines your passions for art and science.

Lucas Remmerswaal has been on a mission to produce and publish a children's book based on the "ideas and principles" of Warren Buffett.

The Great New Zealand Songbook has a second edition, Paula Yeoman spoke to its creator, Murray Thom.