Jobs will be lost in New Zealand at book publishers HarperCollins and Pearson after the companies yesterday announced intentions to close some operations.

Alexa Chung says her highly-anticipated style book featuring her inspirations and musings will be called It.

Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli will lift the lid on his life when he releases his autobiography later this year.

An older woman's wisdom is an asset we can all bank, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Went to a book launch this week. Book launch? More of a relaunch of Marty Crowe's life, really.

My happy place is the cliff-top walkway at the southern end of Long Bay on the North Shore.

Rebecca Miller’s life was never going to be run-of-the-mill; her father was one of the world’s most famous playwrights. Then she fell in love with one of the world’s greatest actors.

Sharon Stephenson is haunted by screenwriter Neil Cross’ grisly creations.

Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie wrote many of his most enduring folk songs after trekking through America's dust-bowl during the years of the Depression and dispossession.

A day after publicly announcing his cancer was in remission, Kiwi cricket legend Martin Crowe has officially launched his autobiography detailing his battle with the disease.

F. Scott Fitzgerald may be closely associated with the Roaring Twenties but the American Autor's work is proving timeless.

It was only in retrospect that I truly got the point of Douglas Kennedy’s latest novel.

Patient Dan Brown fans will have another long wait until he's finished his next book, writes Stephen Jewell.

Martin Crowe says Sky TV was a "nasty snake" troubling his life alongside NZ Cricket and the cancer for which he needed chemotherapy.

The title of the first Bridget Jones novel in 14 years has been announced - Mad About The Boy.

Women: do you feel like your male colleagues don't listen to you? Men: do you feel like you're walking on eggshells with women in your office?

Did you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?

Partly autobiographical novel is a potential winner of awards, predicts Nicky Pellegrino.

Stephen Jewell meets the award-winning South African author of a thrilling tale of murder ... and baseball.

Sarah Dunant's trio of novels set in Renaissance Italy cemented her reputation as one of the great writers of historical fiction.

Most of Nicolas Rothwell's books and journalism offer lyrical, subjective evocations of northern Australia and its indigenous people.

The first book by Australian author Lucy Neave, Who We Were is a very restrained sort of thriller.

Lea Michele has landed a book deal.