Kids books for Christmas reviewed.

Siobhan Harvey reviews recent poetry books and picks favourites from the year.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction and points out some of the year's best reads.

In light of John Key's announcement that he will resign as Prime Minister of New Zealand, we take revisit some crucial moments throughout his leadership.

Today I'm using my pen (computer actually) as a wand to defend Harry Potter. I know I wrote about Brian Tamaki a few weeks ago but

According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

Farmer Stu Muir talks to Matt Philp about transformation and taniwha.

Erri De Luca won the award for his novel The Day Before Happiness.

Commonwealth writers have no chance of beating US 'big hitters', claims 2011 Booker winner Julian Barnes.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes faces his fears - and writes about them, anyway.

First-time author Jonothan Cullinane puts the 1951 Waterfront Strike front and centre of his critically acclaimed crime novel

Are these the best New Zealand books of the year?

Joe Goldberg's your average, cantankerous New York rare books seller. He's also an accomplished serial killer. When we meet him

Local Boards across Auckland have confirmed which libraries will be open during the four days between Christmas and New Year.

The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.

The woman who read Auckland checks out New Lynn War Memorial Library.

Steve Braunias meets Simonne Butler, who very nearly died in the famous attack in 2003 when P-crazed wretch Tony Dixon went at her with a Samurai sword.

One of New Zealand's biggest authors has revealed she is struggling to adapt her biggest book for TV, saying the story has to be completely changed.

Celebrated New Zealand writer Sir James McNeish has died aged 85.

After nearly 50 years together, a husband is jailed for life for the strangulation of his wife. Greg Bruce discovers how an ordinary relationship went so horribly wrong.

Ceramic artist John Parker's stunning book encompasses 50 years of his work.

Everyone wants to get in on the act during an interview with author David Walliams.

Reviews of crime-fiction by Michael Connelly, Ian Austin, Sam Carmody and Laura Lippman

A New Zealand-educated Harvard professor has signed a publishing deal to write a new book on Bob Dylan. University of Auckland PhD

West Coast author Wendy Scott has picked up a second international award for her teen novel Hieroglyph.

COMMENT: Over the past 150 years the New Zealand Wars have always been central to New Zealand's history and even its popular culture.

As we reach - and pass- the age of 50, it is a time to reflect. David Slack says it should not be a time to regret.

Celebrity chef Rick Stein has been on a food-finding tour of European cities, so we don't have to.

Janet McAllister continues her tour of Auckland libraries, visiting the Albany and Glenfield branches.

After The Monogram Murders, her first novel starring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Sophie Hannah was keen to write a second.