Christchurch-based writer Heather McQuillan is the winner of this year's National Flash Fiction Day competition.

Karl Stead is like a grand old sideboard in the dining room of New Zealand literature.

Novels about painters and paintings have been in vogue recently.

Paul Dini has turned a tragic night of fear into an instantly-classic graphic novel.

The plight of an 11-year-old girl at Te Puea Marae with a love for reading has prompted a donation of more than 200 books.

They're calling it a revolution in the way we read - and it's not some new piece of technology.

Elizabeth is a husk of a woman. She feels nothing. Why she continues to live baffles her.

"I'm slightly more blind than Stevie Wonder ... "

Noah is a 4-year-old boy who often wakes screaming from nightmares in which he plays with guns and is held underwater until he blacks out.

Call it a case of life imitating art. Copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird have become hot property at Auckland libraries.

John Hart talks to Craig Sisterson about the roller coaster road to publication of his latest thriller.

When I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.

What a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.

From rampaging dinosaurs and Maori myths to Shakespeare and social issues, our best writers for children and young adults tell stories about them all.

In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.

A comic book creator and real estate heir has been accused of torturing and murdering his girlfriend in Hollywood.

This year's big important NZ rock book has arrived and it's by the guy who founded Flying Nun. Here, he comes Clean about why and how he wrote it.

COMMENT: Sometimes I can confront my grief - walk right into the physical and emotional pain - but at other times I simply know I'm not up to the task.

Stephen Jewell talks to British author Chris Cleave about bravery, racism and how he avoids getting stuck in a writing groove.

Zhang's bleakly lyrical first YA novel brought a cascade of admirers and superlatives; now comes this intricate narrative of adolescents in all their vulnerability, idealism and savagery.

From the sure hand of historian Joan Norlev Taylor comes the tricky manoeuvre of binding fact and fiction into a convincing historical novel.

"Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present," says one of Lionel Shriver's characters in her latest novel set in a dystopian America of the near future.

Simon Cowell is planning to write a children's book along with other entertainment for kids.

About two years ago I bought a euthanasia drug online from China.

When it comes to crime fiction, New Jersey-based writer Harlan Coben is Big Business.

'The odd little bird who saved a family', is already one of my all-time favourites, and I have loaned and read it to various family members who also adored it.

Gates' 2016 list of reads, complete with an animated video describing his picks.