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Design: Second wind
Alan Perrott meets two Auckland women with the knack for finding a new life for unwanted objects.
Build them and they will come
State houses seem to be everywhere and it's true - they are spread throughout the country, from Kaitaia to Bluff.
Camilla Lackberg: Crime is on her side
Stephen Jewell talks to ‘Swedish Agatha Christie’ Camilla Lackberg about her close friendship with her characters, fact being darker than fiction and the myths surrounding her country.
Book review: Northanger Abbey
Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey is the second stage of The Austen Project, for which four writers have been invited to produce a contemporary version of a Jane Austen novel.
Book review: The Bright Side of My Condition
The charming title of this book is a quotation from The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe.
Review: Piccoli Piatti, Herne Bay
Herne Bay’s landmark’s newest incarnation delivers an Italian dining experience worthy of many repeat visits.
Fashion: That 70s show
Ultra suede, check. Faux fur, check. The ‘Me’ decade leaves a lasting impression.
Top 50 places, people, things
We’ve found 50 of the hottest people, places and things to buy and dedicated the entire magazine to featuring them this week.
How good was it for you?
With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.
Say it with a book
With Christmas nearly upon us, the Canvas book reviewing team takes the hassle out of gift-shopping with ideas for all ages and tastes.
The secrets of long life
The quest may no longer be for the elixir of immortality but with an ageing population there is increased awareness of what it takes to live long and well, writes Dionne Christian.
Words fit for a king
The little-known tale of an Australian 'quack' who helped save the British throne from embarrassment is soon to be released.
Tonight I'm going to be
There is more to impersonating a rock star than grabbing a glitzy jacket, shades and turning up at a karaoke bar. Alan Perrott meets four musicians so devoted to their chosen idol that it has become a part of their life.
Interiors: Custodians of history
An Auckland couple merge their own style with a heritage building.
Heart-throbs and happy endings
There's more to writing a love story than one might think. Rebecca Barry meets aspiring and published authors of the booming romance genre.
From chasing the market to living his fantasy
Fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson tells David Larsen how a dragon on a book cover lured him back to reading and changed the path of his life.
And God created Nigella
On-screen, she's the queen of food porn. But off-screen Nigella Lawson is much messier, grumpier and shyer, she tells Stephen Jewell.
Divorce New Zealand style
Not every marriage is a happy ever after. Roughly one third end in divorce — but they don’t necessarily have to end in tears. Shelley Bridgeman talked to experts and those who’ve been though it to find out how to survive the modern divorce.
Britain's first lady of chick lit
Best-known for her rollicking blockbuster romances set in the horse-riding world, Jilly Cooper is one of Britain's most-read authors. Robyn Langwell meets the prolific writer at home, a setting straight out of one of her novels.
All keyed up about fashion
Fashion Week is no longer the sole domain of highly paid, high-powered players. With the rise of new technology has come the rise of self-styled fashion commentators armed with little more than an internet connection and their passion.
Backstage pass
With Fashion Week turning 10, Canvas columnist and World co-founder Denise L'Estrange-Corbet meditates on its importance, its problems and recounts a memorable tanty at World's first New Zealand show.
Life with the other half
Christmases in Switzerland, red-carpet premieres in Cannes, fishing expeditions off the front deck ... Life for the super-wealthy can be pretty fabulous. But, you don't need to be rich to lead such a covetable lifestyle.
Harmonising work and play
When a Hastings couple renovated their villa to include a workroom, space and light were priorities.
Tantrums and tiaras
Put the Bolly on ice, dahlings, next month's New Zealand Fashion Week will be the 10th. To celebrate, Fashion Week creator and leading dahling Pieter Stewart allowed Canvas exclusive access to her photographic archive.
In a lucky place
After years of hard slog keeping a day job to pay for his musical passion, Big Wednesday presenter Marshall Smith tells Alan Perrott the effort.