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Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
British historian William Dalrymple, who specialises…
Book Lover: Rosemary McLeod
The book I most love is... The one I'd find it hardest to part with would have to be The Oxford English Dictionary, all…
Book Review: New Zealand's China Experience
My fairly positive "experience" with this book was abruptly, even rudely, spoiled by the very last item, a contribution…
Book Review: Landfall224
The secret to putting together a really satisfying literary journal is to make sure you have an editor with catholic tastes…
Jamie Oliver's next project will help cash-strapped families
Jamie Oliver's next project is a book and TV show later this year, designed to make meals which cost less and waste little…
Books
Gwyneth's new cookbook: 'Bible of laughable Hollywood neuroticism'
Gwyneth Paltrow's new cookbook has been slammed by critics who have branded the actress out of touch…
Californian girl finds her roots in NZ
New Zealand's man drought may be a sore point for Kiwi women, but it was the perfect drawcard for a Californian girl trying…
Book Review: Z: A Novel Of Zelda Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's complex other half remains a mystery, writes Nicky Pellegrino.
Book lover: Justin Brown
The book I love most is... Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Piggy. Ralph. Mayhem.
A fellowship of the pen
Aspiring, novelists, poets and playwrights were paid to write by the Sargeson Fellowship, a scheme now…
Jason Segel writes young adult fiction
Jason Segel penned three books based on a script he sold when he was 21, which he managed to buy back when he became famous…
New light on history's infamous lover
Bored and exiled in the pine forests of rural Bohemia, far from the cities and the women he had loved and left, the ageing…
Book Review: Picture books
The Wreck Of The Diddley by Fatcat and Fishface (Craig Potton Publishing $24.99) New Zealand musicians Fatcat and Fishface…
Book Review: The Devil Is White
William Palmer’s novels have always tried to superimpose great truths on relatively small-scale canvases.
Book Review: Z: A Novel Of Zelda Fitzgerald
Books Archives
A new novel imagines the shimmering yet ill-fated life of Zelda Fitzgerald, writes Rebecca Barry Hill…
Fiction Addiction
Fiction Addiction: What book would you most like your kids to read?
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the book that most people want to pass on to their children, according to a survey…
New Zealand International Film Festival
Film festival cancelled
The annual autumn World Cinema Showcase - a minor film festival run by the organisers of the main New Zealand International…
Arts
Theatre review: Apocalypse Z
The growing trend towards interactive theatre is thrown into overdrive in a show that invites you to immerse yourself.
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