Former resistance activist and rape survivor Carmen Aguirre these days channels her revolutionary impulses into theatre and writing, says Dionne Christian.

Ghislaine Kenyon tells Craig Sisterson about why she felt compelled to write a book about Sir Quentin Blake, the most renowned illustrator of our time.

"Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict," writes Robert McKee of Story Seminar fame.

Television comedian-cum-birdwatcher and writer Bill Oddie talks to Greg Bruce about his path through fame and depression.

Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow does eat carbs! An exclusive extract from her new book, It's All Easy.

Alan Bollard has written two books about Bill Phillips, a visionary New Zealander who changed the world of economics.

Author JK Rowling has revealed who her favourite Harry Potter character is.

A spokesman for GCHQ said: "We do not comment on our defence against the dark arts."

Dozens of authors will visit for the Auckland Writers Festival but what's it like to be a visiting author far from home?

It took Herman Melville 135 chapters to get to the part when the whale and the captain do battle, but it took 165 years for scientists it prove it's actually possible.

A visiting British reading advocate says reading can help fight poverty.

Sir Ian McKellen returned a £1 million memoir advance because he found writing it "painful".

Local writer Ben Sanders tells Greg Fleming about transposing his previously Auckland-based crimes Stateside and finding his storylines while daydreaming.

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.

Booker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and standout New Zealand writers are lined up for the Auckland Writers Festival.

JK Rowling has earned a further NZ$11.2 billion from the Harry Potter brand since completing the young adult book series.

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.