The English Patient voted best Man Booker Prize winner.

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Stranger than fiction -- these quirky tales from Whanganui's bygone era are all true.

NZ On Screen's Zara Potts takes a look at some NZ's male literary heroes.

Te reo Māori taken to the page and the stage as language learning continues.

While you're getting into the groove you might also like some Māori literature.

From Dr Seuss to Roald Dahl and everywhere in between.

Pip Desmond writes about the difficulties of caring for a mother with dementia in her book

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Turn up the volume (and put in the earplugs): we're taking a look back at NZ's punk scene.

How Bryony Gordon went from loathing her body to running marathons.

Chef and TV star Rick Stein talks with Sarah Daniell about his love of Mexico.

Finalists in the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults named.

The pair briefly debated whether they should accept the award.

MAFS star Tracey Jewel's released a new book - MAFS viewer James Weir recaps.

Using sets of pens, Kate Hursthouse makes an art form from words.

A true crime book on the Golden State Killer is a fascinating study of crime and obsession

Greg Fleming reviews the latest from Walter Mosley, Stella Duffy and others.

'I was kind of expecting it to be a lesson in how to be a good loser'.

Karl Ove Knausgǻrd is a global literary phenomenon; now he's in Auckland.

Why top music critic Alex Ross, in town for the writers festival, hates classical music.

Auckland Writers Festival brings words - in all their forms - alive on stage.

The importance to aspiring young poets of Auckland Writers Fest guest poet Lang Leav.

And then there were four - New Zealand's best books of 2017 announced.

Diana Wichtel, author of Driving to Treblinka, is a finalist in the Ockham NZ Book Awards.

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