Martine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.

Reconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.

Fred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.

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My friends would say 'perhaps you're misunderstood'. People say things about me that are simply not true.

"Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood," Harper Lee says.

Man Booker prize winner Eleanor Catton is to publish her first work since landing one of the literary world's most coveted prizes.

It’s full of dazzling prose, it’s ingeniously put together, it’s so long it’s a drag to lug around.

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Amazon.com has an offer for authors at the book publisher Hachette, which is embroiled in a fight with the Internet retailer over e-book prices.

You need a book to take on holiday but you don’t want a “summer read”, you want something that will broaden your mind.

The clash between Amazon and Hachette has taken a new turn, as hundreds of authors asked readers to email Amazon's CEO to protest the e-retailer's tough tactics.

In his second novel, Craig Sherborne presents a family of transients, “last of their kind”, who drift along, squatting in abandoned properties dotted across Victoria’s wheat belt.

Breton Dukes has an interesting bio. He has shifted from north to south — from Whangarei to Dunedin.

Publishers are wary of short stories. They don’t sell as easily or pleasingly as novels.

Ghetto kid turned presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in New Zealand to help celebrate as the Duffy Books in Homes scheme turns 20.

Ursula Le Guin’s long career has traversed many worlds, within which she is still uncovering more, writes David Larsen.

It starts in the 1970s. An illiterate girl from a Soweto slum is crammed into a truck with a load of potatoes.

John Key briefly considered walking away from the job about 18 months ago and his new biography reveals he sacked two Ministers for 'nothing in particular'.

It's said you should never judge a book by its cover, and Auckland author Vasanti Unka's The Boring Book proves this.

It was three months after the publication of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling, that J.K. Rowling was exposed as the true author of "his" crime debut, lauded by readers and critics alike.