Entertainment'Everything lands me in trouble' - Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.02 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman RushdieThe tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.02 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Trifecta, Ian WeddeThe typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.02 Oct 04:00 PM
TravelBook review: Wild Roads - A New Zealand Journey, Bruce AnsleyAuthor Bruce Ansley cherishes pointing his car along New Zealand's highways and roads.01 Oct 05:00 PM
OpinionTed Dawe: Teen books should reflect real lifeAuthenticity brings me to where I am today; back before the courts trying to justify the use of what they term as offensive language, writes Ted Dawe.30 Sep 01:42 AM
EntertainmentBanned book picked up by US publisherA sexually explicit book for teenagers has been picked up by an American publisher - thanks to being banned in New Zealand.30 Sep 01:35 AM
LifestyleColouring books for young and oldThe library downloads colouring sheets from the many sources on the internet and provides mugs of pencils, but it is clear that there are some addicts29 Sep 08:41 PM
WorldFor Oz's big-time comic artist, it's up, up and awayDrawing superheroes such as Superman or Spider-Man for DC and Marvel, is a dream come true for the Australian Nicola Scott.29 Sep 04:00 PM
EntertainmentGroups seeks R14 rating for banned book Into The RiverThe lobby group that sparked a firestorm over the banning of Ted Dawes' book Into the River says it will apply to have an R14 rating slapped on the novel.27 Sep 12:55 AM
EntertainmentThe nature-obsessed kid who became a fierce activistTim Winton's new 'meandering memoir' tells how a nature-obsessed kid grew up to become a fierce environmental activist. The famed Australian author talks to Linda Herrick.25 Sep 08:00 PM
LifestyleWhy I invented 'concious uncoupling'It's the divorce strategy that launched a thousand headlines, and plenty of scorn besides. But is the woman behind the concept - famously adopted by Gwyneth Paltrow - proof that it can work asks Anna Maxted.25 Sep 07:00 PM
LifestyleBook extract: Message to my girl32-year-old Auckland doctor Jared Noel had terminal cancer and had just one wish before he died - to meet his first child, his to-be-born daughter.25 Sep 05:00 PM
LifestyleA story Elise will never forgetA doctor with terminal cancer who revealed that his dying wish was to meet his unborn daughter has published a book posthumously about his journey.25 Sep 05:00 PM
Rugby World CupHistoric ABs album for saleAn album remembering the 1935 All Blacks team which toured Britain and Ireland is going under the hammer.24 Sep 10:24 PM
Entertainment'Stale excrement' book reviewMorrissey's debut novel has been slated as an "unpolished turd of a book".24 Sep 09:11 PM
EntertainmentPrime Suspect returnsThe creator of popular detective series Prime Suspect has created the back story of tough investigator Jane Tennison, writes Stephen Jewell.24 Sep 07:00 PM
EntertainmentTop five favourite NZ novels namedThe votes have been tallied from a recent poll on nzherald.co.nz to find readers' favourite novel by a New Zealand author.22 Sep 11:08 PM
EntertainmentJackie Collins planned to reveal 'secret affairs'Jackie Collins was planning to reveal all about her "secret affairs" before she died.21 Sep 08:25 PM
WorldBook claims David Cameron took part in obscene act with dead pigA new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.21 Sep 05:37 AM
EntertainmentOz author knocks Rowling off book listAn Australian writer has ousted J.K. Rowling from the number one spot of most popular children's books in New Zealand.20 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentJackie Collins dies, aged 77Jackie Collins has died aged 77 after a long battle with breast cancer.20 Sep 12:52 AM
LifestyleColouring-in craze takes adults back to childhoodThey're the colours of contentment, apparently.19 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentComic goes cosmic on a galactic missionDressed in her black stiletto boots and long elegant locks, Gilda Kirkpatrick is not your stereotypical image of a comic book artist.18 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBanned book may become Hollywood movieThe teen novel Into The River may become a Hollywood movie as news of its banning in New Zealand sparks worldwide debate.16 Sep 02:35 AM
