Our favourite reads can make us more - or less - attractive to the opposite sex.

For Lebanese chef and food writer Marlene Matar, Aleppo is the source of a unique project.

NZ cosmologist Professor Richard Easther talks gravity with science writer Marcus Chown.

A popular local book sale opened this Easter weekend. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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.

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

The late James McNeish sets out the subject of his final book right from its opening line.

Vietnam War is not past for author Viet Thanh Nguyen, writes Alexander Bisley.

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

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.

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.