The Prime Minister wants to bring giant pandas to New Zealand. Greg Dixon asks why stop there?

Bluebells has become famous after opening its first sweet cakery in Hillsborough three years ago. This sister store is roomier and offers a wider variety of sweet and savoury treats.

Only middle class people know how to have sex, right?

This is a cross-over novel of "stories within stories within stories". We're told at the start it's written by a supine, seriously-injured survivor of some major disaster.

From East Berlin to war-torn Africa, Frederick Forsyth's Bond-like past shows what made him a natural fit for MI6.

This is Hastings' first sortie into the secret world as he puts the codebreakers' achievements in context by measuring them against competing sources of secret intelligence.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Bestselling novelist Jojo Moyes on how her childhood shapes her popular novels.

It's a hard road finding the perfect chardonnay. But this week I think I've cracked it.

There's more to decor than neutral hues - so why are we so reluctant to venture into the world of bright hues? Suzanne McFadden asks the experts.

Four of the country's best designers talk to Kirsten Matthew about making beautiful furniture and homewares, New Zealand's place in contemporary design, and their most favourite things.

Enter through a garage roller door off New North Rd into a room with a couple of scattered beanbags, and an inviting space for four-legged friends.

Salman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.

The tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.

The typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Spanish hams hang from hooks to add to the authentic feel of this central Auckland restaurant.

A writer and sometime stand-up comedian, Verity writes on life, love and a bit of everything.

Fort St is Auckland's latest food hotspot and Lucky Buddha is leading the charge.

Vintage florals and day dresses evoke genteel spring days sipping iced tea on the terrace. Cin cin!

The service was just right. Friendly, helpful and we didn't have to wait long for our meals.

Tim Winton's new 'meandering memoir' tells how a nature-obsessed kid grew up to become a fierce environmental activist. The famed Australian author talks to Linda Herrick.

It's the divorce strategy that launched a thousand headlines, and plenty of scorn besides. But is the woman behind the concept - famously adopted by Gwyneth Paltrow - proof that it can work asks Anna Maxted.

The creator of popular detective series Prime Suspect has created the back story of tough investigator Jane Tennison, writes Stephen Jewell.

Un-cool mums know there are more important things in life than their own egos, writes Verity Johnson.

Got a hard to please overseas visitor coming? Take them to Ostro for a fine dining night out.