The votes have been tallied from a recent poll on nzherald.co.nz to find readers' favourite novel by a New Zealand author.

Jackie Collins was planning to reveal all about her "secret affairs" before she died.

A new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.

An Australian writer has ousted J.K. Rowling from the number one spot of most popular children's books in New Zealand.

Jackie Collins has died aged 77 after a long battle with breast cancer.

They're the colours of contentment, apparently.

Dressed in her black stiletto boots and long elegant locks, Gilda Kirkpatrick is not your stereotypical image of a comic book artist.

The teen novel Into The River may become a Hollywood movie as news of its banning in New Zealand sparks worldwide debate.

The Man Booker Prize short list of six top novels was released last night - but this year the prestigious award does not have a New Zealander among the top picks.

Ted Dawe is the multi-award-winning author of several young adult novels including Into the River, which is currently banned.

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.

Glenn Colquhoun is a GP and writer. The first poet to win the Reader's Choice Montana Book Awards for his bestselling book Playing God, he headlines this weekend's Going West book festival

This is the age when youth shades into adulthood, writes James Meffan. Much literature that really engages people at this stage in life deals with transition and change.

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".