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.

The online abuse aimed at the Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she donated £1 million to the Better Together campaign may have actually been the work of British spies, a senior Scottish politician has claimed.

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.

The "state of constant distraction" created by the internet, email and instant messaging is killing the traditional literary novel, a leading British author has claimed.

While New Zealand fans were still recovering from the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

becoming an octogenarian has only ramped up Jane Goodall’s globe-trekking schedule, because there’s far too much to be done to pause for a breather.

Ned Beauman’s new novel, Glow, is being touted as an international conspiracy thriller for a new generation, writes Stephen Jewell.

Most of what you need to know about Stephen King you could learn from his sex scenes.

British writer Nicola Barker retreats into a self-indulgent solitude when she is working, she tells James Kidd.

Eric Hill, the children’s author behind the Spot the Dog series, has died at the age of 86 in his California home.

There is no race for US president this year or next but one woman will today take a very public step towards ensuring she'll be ready to jump in when the time comes.

Economist and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett offers her take on the intangibles of leadership.

In the latest clash between Amazon (the monopolist) and publishers Hachette (the cartel), neither side comes with clean hands or pure heart.