Book lovers will have a chance to see Eleanor Catton's specially bound copy of The Luminaries as part of Auckland Libraries' latest exhibition.

Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker prize for a tale inspired by his father's experiences in a Japanese PoW camp. It was a novel he never wanted to write, he reveals to Arifa Akbar.

Top author John Grisham has argued that not all men who watch "child porn" are paedophiles or should go to jail.

Richard Flanagan was tonight awarded the Man Booker Prize for a Second World War novel about the Burma Death Railway.

The massive foodie tome, 1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die, has just been released. Among the featured eateries are a dozen of NZ's best.

If ever there was a neon-lit example of cricket implosion, the Kevin Pietersen autobiography debacle is, to use modern management parlance, best practice.

Enduring love for Agatha Christie sees British thriller writer Sophie Hannah add to the famous detective cases. She talks to Stephen Jewell.

A best-selling author is giving away the hefty book collection that lines every wall of his beachfront Auckland home.

The author informed her millions of followers that she was "very busy" at work on a novel, a screenplay and campaigns for her children's charity Lumos.

A serious injury is many rugby parents' nightmare, and every rugby-playing boy's fear.

Coming up with books wasn't difficult - I love books. Narrowing my list down to only five was far trickier. But here goes, my five life-changing reads.

A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes very wrong, by the founder of crappytaxidermy.com

Liane Moriarty’s latest novel is a darkly comedic tale about a trivia night death, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Sir John Kirwan's new push: “We teach them maths, English, science, but we don’t actually teach them resilience. I think it has to become part of the curriculum."

His own experience has taught him the importance of simply being available for his kids and willing to listen.

An exclusive extract from Stand by Me by Sir John Kirwan, his guide for helping parents and teens around mental health.

They came out of California, featured window seats and shingled tiles, were clad in weatherboard and Auckland has thousands of them.

Booker-prize-winning author admits she thought about killing the British PM when she found herself within shooting range of her in 1983.

Lena Dunham reinvented the oversharing style on her hit show, Girls. What will her first book do? Meghan Daum meets TV’s hottest property and talks psychotherapy, sisterhood and why she can’t keep a secret.