She's gone from being a pizza waitress to topping the charts in 30 countries and singing at Nelson Mandela's birthday concert.

Everybody has their favourite variation on this chocolate 'cake that's not a cake'.

Kiwi ultramarathoner Lisa Tamati, now 29 days into her 2,200km run the length of New Zealand, says her body is holding up well, despite early injury fears.

New Moon, the second instalment of the Twilight saga, has shattered box-office records.

Becoming a comedian didn't work out for Jenny Colgan. Fortunately, being a novelist did.

While you're standing on the footpath, waving your stick and ranting at young whipper-snappers, popular culture passes you by...

Successfully fictionalising legendary people isn't easy.

After two decades of obsession with America, the boy from Mt Roskill journeyed through its heartland.

Mark Ellingham (Profile) and Peter Florence (Hay Festival) have compiled four collections of short stories under the title Ox-Tales.

A doyen of NZ literature has compared plagiarism to drug cheating in sport because of the unfair advantage it gives over contemporaries.

Fans of the Twilight saga will not be let down by the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's second book, writes Ellen Dorset.

CK Stead has criticised Auckland University for minimising the seriousness of the Witi Ihimaera plagiarism controversy.

Vintner's Luck author Elizabeth Knox cried for days after seeing the big-screen adpatation of her acclaimed novel.

The second instalment in the vampire trilogy is here, but why is it so popular.

It might be a short book but making a film of Where the Wild Things Are was a giant of a job for left-field director Spike Jonze.

Most copies of Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea, which contains plagiarised passages, are set to be taken off bookstore shelves.

A Ferrari disappears. Then the owner begins to suspect that her bank accounts have leaked tens of millions of dollars without explanation.