Greg Fleming reviews the latest from Mick Herron, L.S Hilton, Ian Rankin and Daniel Cole

COMMENT: My father opened our minds to notions, concepts bigger than our mere selves and gifted us with the rules of grammar.

Nicky Hager is again releasing a book in election year, but its subject is a mystery.

Janet McAllister, who's reading her way around Auckland, visits Waitakere Library.

The Auckland Writers Festival is now so big, it's moving some events to a spiegeltent.

Murray Ball let his wonderful characters speak for him, says filmmaker.

Eleanor Catton's new work follows ultra-rich doomsday preppers in NZ.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

New Zealand cartoonists pay tribute to the legendary Murray Ball, who died yesterday after a battle with illness.

The average New Zealand writer is struggling to pay their bills.

A leading world critic of Muslim extremism says New Zealand should establish "assimilation centres" for migrants and refugees from

A poet from Te Kuiti thought her win was a hoax at first.

Greg Fleming reviews a new collection of unpublished poems and writings from the Man in Black many of which read like song lyrics.

US author Laurie Frankel tells Jennifer Dann how she didn't have to look far for the idea behind her latest novel

The woman who read Auckland, Janet McAllister, visits the Mangere Bridge and Onehunga libraries.

It may be the digital age but libraries are coming to a street near you, and they need your books. Made with Funding from NZ On Air.

Lucy Clark on why we shouldn't stress about our children's academic success - or lack of it.

A notebook belonging to Sir Edmund Hillary will be auctioned off after it was discovered in a box of old books donated by the late mountaineer's caretaker.

A raunchy novel for teenagers that was banned in New Zealand has won a rare "perfect 10" rating from an American young adult fiction website.

A new book explores the Treaty of Waitangi - at the coalface and where we are headed.

JK Rowling has been sending off sassy comebacks on Twitter like she's firing off spells

Film-maker seeking funding to film controversial tale.

Former President Barack Obama could rake in more than $26 million in advance for his post-presidential memoir.

Think colouring-in is still trendy? Prepare to think again.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction.

E L James' writing is so execrable, the characters in Fifty Shades so banal, the sex scenes so lacking in passion and emotion.

The second novel from Mindy Mejia has already gotten attention from TV networks

He may seem like something out of a comic book, but Trump has found some help from Marvel.

A charity comic starring Batman and other DC heroes is raising funds for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

There are certain practices that separate the financially successful from the rest of us mere mortals. And one daily habit shared