Forgotten for nearly 500 years, the sheet music owned by Henry VIII's second wife could shed new light on her life - and loves, says Ivan Hewett.

Fears that young people are influenced by popular culture should not be the basis for arbitrary banning of award-winning books.

Forgive the pessimism, but I don't think that banning one book is going to help.

"I've counted the number of times that offensive words appear in Into The River. It's got the c-word nine times, the f-word 17 times and s-h-i-t 16 times."

JK Rowling says Harry Potter fans have been pronouncing villain Lord Voldemort's name wrong for years.

From Into The River to Little Red Riding Hood, there's much to disapprove of, Toby Manhire finds. What should be banned next? There is a long list that isn't getting any shorter.

Socialite Gilda Kirkpatrick has teamed up with local astrophysicists to write a new children's book.

Comic book giant Marvel has added a Native American and a Korean-American teenager to its list of superheroes, pushing forth with its bid to diversify and smash racial boundaries.

There's been an exponential increase in the umber of people searching for controversial young adult novel 'Into the River' online.

After finally including non-white leads in the forthcoming 'The Force Awakens', it's been announced a new novel will include the franchise's first openly gay lead.

Publishers Penguin Random House has expressed its disappointment over the ban of Into The River saying "young people benefit from having access to coming of age books".

The prohibition of any work carries serious consequences for free speech, writes Dominic Sheehan. It acts as a chill wind to future endeavor, a warning not to push boundaries.

Attorney-General Chris Finlayson says the Government should review the law on the classification of books after the interim ban on Ted Dawe's teenage novel.

With a shirtless Richard Madden and a breathless Holliday Grainger playing the leads, the latest adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover was expected to leave the nation hot under the collar.

What this ban highlights, is that far from being the 'poor sister' to fact, fiction can be seen by some, to be just as dangerous, writes Dana Wensley.

The head of the Christian lobby group Family First said he never demanded the award-winning book Into the River be banned.

Ted Dawe is the children's author of the first book to be banned in New Zealand for at least 22 years.

New Zealand's newest poet laureate says his latest accolade is 'very acceptable' but you suspect he'd rather talk about his love of cats of dogs.

Most Kiwi dads read to their children but mums read to them more, a survey has found.

And Then There Were None has emerged as the best of Christie's wide selection of novels.

JK Rowling has created a Twitter storm by revealing today is the first day of Hogwarts for Harry Potter's son.

Coming to MTV in January 2016, ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ is a new TV series based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Terry Brooks.

Jack Nicholson once offered Princess Margaret cocaine at a dinner party held in her honour - but she spent the night dancing with John Travolta instead.

Boy Star James Rolleston and Youtube sensation Jamie Curry among a star-studded cast for movie of the debut novel by Eleanor Catton.

As adulthood gels carefree youth drains away.

Eva Gabrielsson, the partner of the late Stieg Larsson, has described David Lagercrantz as an "idiotic choice" for the job of writing a sequel to Larsson's Millennium trilogy.