EXPLOSIVE NEW CLAIMS: Book says Scott Watson is the person who killed Olivia Hope and Ben Smart.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction

Today on the anniversary of his death, Emma Michelle and Anne Maxwell reflect on how JD Salinger's writing first influenced the world and how it continues to do so now.

Smiling broadly and chatting happily as she signed cookbook after cookbook, Nigella Lawson charmed hundreds of fans in Invercargill yesterday.

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is in Invercargill today. We look at similarities and differences between the South Island city and her home in London.

Domestic goddess charms fans who braved the summer heat to meet her in Auckland.

Please add the name of Elizabeth Harrower to the embarrassingly long list of authors I should have read years ago.

She's best known to the world as a writer of Indian food books, however, as Madhur Jaffrey tells Michele Kayal, her first love is the theatre.

"Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1825, "and I'll tell you what you are."

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo has to be one of the most useful books ever written, Paul Little writes.

Sinclair McKay is enthralled by superb histories that chart mankind's flirtation with global disaster.

Young liberals have made a video of Israelis and Palestinians kissing each other in response to a book being banned.

If you love Game of Thrones, don't nag George R.R. Martin to finish the books, writes Alyssa Rosenberg.

Eleanor Catton married her long-time partner Steven Toussaint today.

Agatha Christie loved taking everyday items and turning them into instruments of death.

Digital outreach librarian Baruk Jacob set up Auckland Libraries' new 'Maker Spaces'.

J.K. Rowling has said she "loves" the fact that Hermione Granger will be played by a black actress in the highly anticipated new Harry Potter play.

Edna O'Brien's new novel is about how we can still be seduced by evil people. Francesca Wade meets her.

If you're not sure what to get Dad this Christmas, Andrew Alderson has a few ideas of the literary kind.

Terry Gilliam is the odd man out of the Python squad, the warm and loose American among uptight Englishmen. Yet he may be the team's secret weapon.

T.S. Eliot once wrote that the critic's job was to "exhibit the relations of literature - not to 'life', as something contrasted to literature, but to all the other activities, which, together with literature, are the components of life".