The Harry Potter author has told how publishers suggested she could benefit from a writing course when she approached them under pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction

A complaint about the reading of a novel written by a beloved Kiwi children's author has been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

Our new literary heroines are dark, twisted - and a little closer to home. Kim Knight talks domestic noir with Paula Hawkins, ahead of the British author's Auckland visit.

A book about New Zealand got Toby Little started on a mammoth letter-writing project. Joe Shute meets him.

Art Green talks about his new book Eat Clean, Live Lean, wanting children with his girlfriend Matilda and the second season of The Bachelor.

COMMENT: Since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007 and the second of the two-part movie adaptation of JK Rowling's final Harry Potter novels was released in 2011, the author and her creation have been in a kind of limbo.

Dawe says Into the World is a story about the traps that young men fall into, with a focus on the results of bad decisions.

In an anxiously anticipated new story, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has transported her world of magical wizarding across the Atlantic and some Native American commentators are not happy with the result, saying it exploits and distorts Native culture.

The second chapter of JK Rowling's History of Magic in America includes even more revelations about the previously untold past of wizards and witches in the New World.

JK Rowling has unveiled the first of four chapters from her History of Magic in North America. Rachel Bache takes a closer look at the lessons we can learn about the wizarding world.

A sequel to the controversial book Into the River is set to be released at a launch in Mt Eden next Tuesday.

No one gets beheaded; some readers are displeased.

Is this 'geeky' Oxford graduate's debut the sexiest book of the year?

Book extract: Helen Garner's assault on condescension.

Sally Gardner's imagination seems inexorably drawn to the past, but what if the journey was real? She talks to Stephen Jewell about her latest novel and its time-travelling teenagers.

Harper Lee, the novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice became standard reading for millions and an Oscar-winning film, has died.

Scottish writer Peter May tells Stephen Jewell about returning to his homeland for his latest novel and putting himself into his character's mind.

Greg Fleming meets three Auckland chefs who share the books that have inspired their culinary journeys

Matthew Hayes talks about claims of joint authorship and the impact on the duration of copyright.

What did the Cold War and housework have in common? British author Helen Dunmore reveals the 'ordinary' part of the dramatic period in history to Nicky Pellegrino and how she gets to intimately know her characters.