It's been a week since a tweeted picture of Lorde and Eleanor Catton reading in bed together in New York became a world-wide hit.

The Pike River coal mine should have been shut down well before the devastating explosion, says the author of a new book on the tragedy.

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has picked up another trophy for her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries.

The shortlist for the dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction award has been revealed, with the late American folk singer Woody Guthrie's posthumously published novel leading the nominees.

She's now a literary luminary, but Eleanor Catton doesn't want any "homecoming fuss" when she finally jets back to New Zealand.

Like one of Field Marshal Haig's family whiskies, Max Hastings is a dram that steadily improves with age.

It’s 30 years since one of our most famous children’s books was first published. Hairy Maclary has been read and loved by millions in its three decades.

It wasn't until after he had taken the photo for his new book featuring people from 35 tribes from the Siberian Arctic to New Zealand that British photographer Jimmy Nelson realised who Pita Sharples was.

They are young Kiwi women taking the world by storm - one has a No 1 hit in several countries and the other won literature's Man Booker prize.

Game of Thrones author, George R R Martin, has revealed the details of his whirlwind tour to Australia and New Zealand.

From Earth's End tells the tumultuous story of the outrageous talents and idealistic publishers who created the Kiwi comic industry, writes Robert Smith.

As a new edition of the all-powerful Michelin Guide is published, Neil Tweedie delves into the secret world of the restaurant inspectors who wield the power to award or withdraw those coveted stars.

When Elizabeth Knox started writing her new novel, Wake, she wanted to take on the challenge of inspiring fear. But, she writes, that evolved into confronting the real-life things that terrified her.

New Zealand Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton will treat Kiwi bookworms to a reading and discussion of her winning work, The Luminaries.

At age 80, Willie Nelson is ready to say it all. Little, Brown and Company has announced that the country music superstar has a book deal with the publisher.

It's been 17 years since Bridget Jones's Diary first appeared, turning freelance journalist Helen Fielding into a best-selling author and screenwriter.

Julianne Moore, star of stage and screen, mother of two and successful children's writer, remains the most unaffected of actresses despite her illustrious career.

The claim that Adolf Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker to live incognito in Argentina first gained currency in 1945, when Joseph Stalin spoke of it.

Former Fed Reserve chairman strikes back in a new book at allegations he helped cause the global financial crisis.

New Zealand's Publishers Association has criticised the Dotcom Mega website after it was found that Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries could be downloaded free.

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.