Lael Chisholm has designs on a future as an illustrator; now a major award ought to help.

Broadcaster Alison Ballance discusses her new book on New Zealand's great white sharks.

Nicky Hager lives in the house he built and has written six books while living there.

Max Harris is young and wants to change the world so he's putting plans into action.

I'm reluctant to say what I really think of Tui Street Tales.

Astonishingly author Kevin Ireland's new book is his 23rd poetry collection.

Rankin and Rebus: growing older together but still on the case, writes Greg Fleming.

Books feature in most rooms, and I've just counted the bookcases.

This is the third book about (mis)adventures of two unlikely friends: a snake and a lizard

Drysdale told kids in a special assembly "It's cool to read and cool to achieve."

If you picked up a book left behind in Auckland, chances are it came from Emma Watson.

Loss, pain and hope run through NZ writer Bonnie Etherington's first novel.

NZ elite soldiers killed six civilians during a 2010 Afghanistan raid, a new book claims.

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.

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.

A new theory has emerged that iconic author Jane Austen may have died from arsenic poisoning.

For the first time, our 49-year-old book awards will get an international judge.

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Greg Fleming reviews a new collection of unpublished poems and writings from the Man in Black many of which read like song lyrics.

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

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

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.