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What Carol Markwell is reading
Compelling New Zealand novels and poetry top Carol Markwell's reading list

Jamie Lynn Spears' book publishers slam 'incorrect' pre-release information
It has been revealed Britney Spears' younger sister is gearing up to release a memoir.

Daring and death-defying: The only living lady parachutist's tour of NZ
"She was unconventional, doing something considered exceptional even for a man to do."

How an existential psychotherapist changed my life
"I became aware I was living based on choices I had made many years earlier."

The family link behind the new Bounty book
Fletcher Christian's great (x6) grandson has written a book re-examining the Bounty story.

Kerry Harrison's novel focuses on the season of unreason
Novel brings the Red Squad era back to life

'Psychedelics became a door in the wall, a way to go somewhere without having to go to the airport'
Michael Pollan on taking a more enlightened approach to drugs.

'Some books you gobble up, others you need to spend time with'
What crime author Anne Harré has in her to-read pile

Lee Child: 'No one I knew had childhood dreams of becoming a writer'
Thriller writer Lee Child talks to his biographer, Heather Martin

For the first time in a long time, short story collections are selling well
The short form is growing.

'Creating art isn't ever easy'
'I emerged from the theatre an absolute blubbery mess' - Shane Bosher on The Normal Heart

'I had crossed a bomb-site of rubble and craters and collapsing cliffs left by vanished ice'
'The higher I climbed, the more the southerly intensified. It shoved me in the face.'

Greg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habits
I like to read - I really do - but do I really?

Greg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authors
Characters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing

'For the first time winter becomes too much'
'You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'

Jared Savage's book Gangland unbanned from prisons
Prisoners have been able to read copies of the book since March this year.

Writer discovers 'this is real for them …'
Personal experience helps create authenticity, says award-winning writer

The exclusive New York hotel that set women free
Grace Kelly and Joan Didion graced its halls, where no man was allowed above the lobby.

Surprise as another Meghan children's book surfaces
It turns out "The Bench" isn't the Duchess' first foray into children's literature.

It'd be a great headline, I know: 'McCartney better than Shakespeare'
"I'd love to think of what Beckett would be up to on Instagram."

When swimming becomes more than a sport
In Campbell Mattinson's novel We Were Not Men, two orphans turn to the water.

No ordinary life: "It was history, you know?"
Hokianga's octogenarian novelist Judith Reinken.

'I'm very keen to know how to increase or maintain the health of my brain'
Books about increasing efficiency attract writer Natalie Sisson

'I wrote it for Māori and Māori kids because we don't have enough stories that represent us'
Shilo Kino's debut novel The Pōrangi Boy is a reflection, in many ways, of her own life.