Unless you're a gazillionaire signed up for one of those trips into space, your next holiday is somewhere inside these pages.

Previously unpublished family photographs of the Queen as a young girl are to be seen by the public for the first time.

Church historian and author Peter Lineham is joining us at midday for a chat on his new book Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle.

A controversial children's novel is being reviewed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

Massive forces bent faults below the Canterbury Plains, jolting a sleeping city awake at 4.35am. The other world - that occupied by animals - got an almighty fright too.

A new poetry prize has been launched to honour Auckland poet Sarah Broom who passed away in April at the age of 41, just before her collection Gleam was published.

Crime writer Denise Mina tells Doug Johnstone why she sees herself as a political writer

A comedy set in North Korea? Now there's an oxymoron for you.

Dionne Christian finds the Storylines Festival is perfect to encourage kids' love of reading and writing.

Well-pitched tale took 15 years to tell, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Anne Kennedy is an award-winning poet who has also developed a solid reputation writing novels and screenplays.

It seems strange, in the age of information overload, that we should still be swamped by the fear of the unknown.

A celebrated children's author-turned-publisher has left the country, with a trail of unpaid debts and angry authors in her wake.

A random act of kindness brought 92-year-old fire victim Pearl Sanger close to tears after she received a signed novel from writer Lee Child, not yet released in NZ.

Spirituality and government surveillance are hot topics on Whitcoulls' new Top 100 book list.