Love story at heart
Angels and the supernatural aside, Singh's books are each a unique emotional journey.
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Expat chef Robert Oliver is on a mission to promote real Pacific food, writes Peter Calder.
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Marmon was one of many Europeans who jumped ship to live with Maori in the early days of contact.
<i>Review:</i> William Dalrymple at the Writers & Readers Festival
Dalrymple, a towering figure who spoke with the brio of a great orator, used imagery of paintings and photos to reinforce his compelling tale of the last Mughal.
The bigger picture
The complicated and sensitive world of artists is explored in Sarah Thornton's new book. She talks to Stephen Jewell.
Book review: <i>Telling Tales: A Life in Writing</i>, by William Taylor
This memoir by New Zealand children's author William Taylor is, I am delighted to report, an endearing collection of his experiences.
Trelise unruffled as author mocks fashions of the rich
Charlotte Grimshaw's fourth novel The Night Book is set among Auckland's wealthy political elite and tells of women with more money than dress sense, decked out in "yards of ruffle and flounce and skirt and boot".
Soul-baring revelations with a smattering of humour
A near-full house of fans greeted Australian writer Thomas Keneally when he walked on stage at the ASB Centre yesterday morning for an hour of soul-baring revelations and a great deal of humour.
A literary approach to death
Lionel Shriver and Charlie Higson tackle the sensitive topic of death in very different ways.
Keith Richards: 'I'm probably more aligned to Lucifer and the dark side'
When Keith Richards announced he was going to write his autobiography, most people didn't believe the Rolling Stones guitarist could remember enough to justify the $5m fee.
Fashion by the book
Author Angela Lassig fills a much-needed gap by publishing a book on 25 New Zealand fashion designers.
A week of it
Music month continues to take over drinking holes and town halls all the way from Ponsonby to Pukekohe this week.
Getting to grips with grief
Elizabeth Smither is a prolific and award-winning writer with 17 volumes of poetry, six novels and a number of short story collections published.
Using alchemy of prose to let off steam
Charlotte Grimshaw once described her last novel, Foreign City, as a kind of "layer cake" of fiction, reality and fictionalised reality.
Shocking cost of living longer
Writer Lionel Shriver tells Stephen Jewell how a friend's illness inspired her to take on the injustices of the healthcare system.
Travel book: <i>More Miles Than Money: Journeys through American music</i>
A sort of musical quest through the southern US to see if they're still producing the fresh, exciting, untamed roots music which once inspired the world.
Tom Keneally: Humanising history
Australian author Tom Keneally talks to Graham Reid about how criminals and the rich were thrown together when the country was founded.
Capital style
A new book shines the spotlight behind the scenes of some of London's style gurus, focusing on their interior design at home.
NZ actress has a comic-book makeover
Kiwi star Anna Paquin is being immortalised in a comic book - but some are questioning her cartoon likeness to the real thing.
Her dark materials
Charlotte Grimshaw's new novel stars a National Party leader tipped to be the next Prime Minister. Does this man resemble anyone we know? Linda Herrick reports
Cultural immersion or imitation?
What do Maori haka, Fijian firewalking and yoga have in common? According to a book by Canadian writer Andrew Potter they are all part of an authenticity hoax.
Book review: <i>Solar</i>, by Ian McEwan
That Ian McEwan, what a comedian. It's not a phrase you come across often.