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

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.

Foodies and home cooks will love these four new reads.

Richard Fairgray has less than 3 per cent normal vision, sees the world in two dimensions and is legally blind but is New Zealand’s highest-selling comic book writer and artist.

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

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.

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.

When a driver ran through a stop sign, killing 12-year-old daughter Abi two years ago today, Lucy Hone used research into grief to try to ease the pain.

Elspeth Muir examines the culture of binge-drinking that she, too, fell into and the deeper issues it may conceal.

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.

"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.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction

It goes to show, as Hare says, the audience - the way it reacts and responds and its current concerns - shapes theatre.