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The Ockham Award-winner's ninth book is full of hidden secrets and plenty of suspense, says Josie Shapiro.

In 1985 we see the adults through a child’s eyes, and the distance of memory, but his is not a one-dimensional lens. Hoey writes about disappointed people coping via escapism.

National security has become incredibly complicated in the digital age, says the MI5 boss-turned-novelist, but the secret agent's most powerful skill hasn't changed a bit.

Shilo Kino’s latest novel All that We Know is about a young woman reclaiming her reo as a disconnected urban Māori.

A clash between two food influencers over a caramel slice and a baklava recipe highlights the grey area of recipe ownership.

Coffee influencer and author Celeste Wong says we're getting a good deal comparing the quality and cost to our UK counterparts.

Just as we might set up parental controls on our devices, should we be censoring what our children read?

Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter got in Trump's firing line after coining a description of the business tycoon that has now become a running joke in pop culture.

Art historian Mary Kisler delves into the prisoner-of-war ordeal that shaped her father Jack in the new book Dark Dad: War and trauma - a daughter’s tale.

Libraries in New Zealand are no longer just for books. They are learning hubs, language schools, havens for the homeless and support centres for those who have nowhere else to go for help.

Abdulrazak Gurnah - a Nobel laureate who moved to the UK at 18 - continues to explore the immigrant experience in his new novel Theft.

Thirty of William Shakespeare's "underwritten" female characters speak their mind in a new book of speeches by English actress Harriet Walter.

When Sissay was 12, he was given back to social services by his foster family who had taken him in as a baby. He knew from then he wanted to be a poet for life.

One hundred years on from making her mark with botanical artwork, Emily Harris' unseen poetry and diary entries come to light.

In her new novel Dream Count, the Nigerian literary star tackles the tense sibling-like relationship between African Americans and Black people who are not from the US.

Graci Kim said the call to skip the US leg of her Dreamslinger book launch was out of her hands.

If you love New Zealand honey, then you have an intrepid 19th century Englishwoman to thank.

Christchurch writer and former Flying Nun bass player Rachael King hopes her new book series Violet and the Velvets will encourage preteen girls to join rock bands.

This week, the Ministry of Education released a proposed list of suggested texts for New Zealand school students.

Gabrielle Kervella, now in her 80s, fell in love with cheese making on annual visits to South West France to visit her husband’s parents.

Classifying all stories about women who find love as ‘chick lit’ or ‘romance’ does a disservice to readers and the female experience, says bestselling English novelist Jojo Moyes.

Award-winning authors and global thought-leaders form a diverse line-up for the largest literary festival in the southern hemisphere.

The New Zealand artist calls on his very vivid memories in his new memoir, Hastings: A Boy's Own Adventure, which he wrote in pencil.

A year ago Kate Evans became the "mad feijoa lady of Raglan".

"There are so many powerful scenes which have stayed with me long after I finished it and shows how societal judgements on women have changed over time," one of the judges said.