Anthony Horowitz has penned his first original novel for adults in more than a decade.

A Roald Dahl classic comes to the Auckland stage.

Annabel Gooder reviews the latest sci-fi and fantasy books and points out some of the year's best reads.

An initiative keeping children learning over the six weeks of summer break is attracting more interest than ever.

Dionne Christian reviews the latest kids' chapter books and points out some of 2016's best.

Catherine Smith savours some of 2016's best food books.

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

Jim Eagles and Mark Fryer pick 2016's best non-fiction books.

Kids books for Christmas reviewed.

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.

Acclaimed author and illustrator Donovan Bixley shares tales of the books that inspired him.

Johnny Marr: I'm not going to have my life story sullied by some bullshit agenda. I'll tell it really how it was.

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

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.

Carrie Fisher has denied criticising the sexual skills of her Star Wars co-star and secret squeeze Harrison Ford.

Former All Black Keven Mealamu continues to draw on art skills.

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