Kiwi technology firm Booktrack is seeking to "ride the self-publishing wave" and has worked with Google to launch a web-based studio where users can add their own soundtrack to novels, short stories or even blog posts.

Albert Wendt says he is "really chuffed" to have received the Order of New Zealand insignia that formerly belonged to fellow writer the late Margaret Mahy.

The Red Cross got no money from the high-profile publisher of a book promoted as a fundraiser for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.

A poignant blog shows just what an impact fear can have on women’s lives and dreams. Anna Maxted — no stranger to crippling anxiety — is prompted to ask ... What are we all so afraid of?

In the world that Paul Cleave creates, Christchurch is a violent and seedy city, inhabited by kidnappers, jaded ex-cops, and twisted serial killers.

Johno Ryan is doomed, it seems. He's barely out of short pants when his father and his grandfather sit him down and explain that their family are criminals: that's what they do.

Stuart MacBride brings back his leading man in his latest thriller, writes Stephen Jewell.

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Previously unpublished family photographs of the Queen as a young girl are to be seen by the public for the first time.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

Rugby superstar Jonah Lomu has criticised his former manager Phil Kingsley Jones in a new book.