For sale: hexagonal house in quiet position near top white-baiting lagoon in the heart of the South Island's West Coast.

A little-known Kiwi author is pinching herself after landing a seven-figure advance and a lucrative film deal for her new book.

Nearly 200 years after her death, Jane Austen has become one of the most widely read authors in history. Kerrie Waterworth finds out why she continues to appeal, generation after generation.

It is not easy to decide which lie Helen Dunmore was talking about when she titled her new book.

British-based writer Tom Rob Smith tells Stephen Jewell how real life drama inspired his new novel in a way that disturbed him far more than he expected.

Award-winning author Eleanor Catton spent yesterday in Hokitika, the setting of her critically acclaimed novel The Luminaries.

Keith Richards is releasing a children's book in September, but he is not the first celebrity to venture into the world of children's publishing.

It’s raw, relentless and, at an epic 3500 pages, a best-selling literary phenomenon. But the brutal honesty of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has shocked many — and alienated half of his family, writes Hermione Hoby.

Consider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author.

Fledgling Auckland writer Ben Atkins talks to Craig Sisterson about the crime novel he has been working on since he was 15.

Images reproduced with permission from Lazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyle by Graham Young, published by New Holland, $29.99.

Extensive footnotes make this hard to follow, as Nicky Pellegrino discovers.

Walt and Judy, of 1970s small-town Vermont, can't conceive a child. For all their mutual tenderness, life has become just "a collection of gestures and habits". So they adopt.

A Swedish newspaper has intensified a decades-old allegation by dead crime novelist Stieg Larsson about who was behind the 1986 murder of the country's Prime Minister.

The wealth gap is provoking much contemporary anxiety. But the financial imbalance between, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and the Big-Mac slinger is a shadow of that which existed between the first American capitalist barons.

In Richard Jackson's book about a terrorist, sections of text are covered by heavy black lines.

Have you spoiled Game of Thrones for yourself? Chris Schulz has. Here's his cautionary tale.

After years of exploring Sweden’s darkest fears in his fiction, Henning Mankell, the creator of Wallander, faces his own anxiety after being diagnosed with cancer. Andrew Anthony writes.

Literary sensation Fifty Shades Of Grey - which has already set sales records - has become one of the UK's most borrowed library books.

Three Aucklanders tell Alan Perrott how they reinvented themselves.