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.

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.

The rare copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban book was sold to an overseas buyer at an Auckland-based online auction.

A Lower Hutt man claims he is the one who has been randomly delivering racy fiction to mailboxes in the harbourside community of Eastbourne.

Work's out for summer and it's time to dig into a page-turner.

Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography reveals much about the politics and history of a small New Zealand provincial city as it swings between conservatism and being one of the country’s most progressive.

Offal, stolen recipes, celebrities and clandestine affairs - Auckland restaurateur Tony Astle shares nearly 50 years' worth of juicy morsels in his new memoir.

Every month a group of Auckland women meet at the bookshop Chapters to break down a steamy novel.

Book lover Tilly Lloyd trawls her bookshelf to explore the best NZ fiction published since 2000.

Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds. Now we're getting contemporary fiction with a bird’s eye view.

Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of artist and industrial designer Steve Mushin's 100-plus bonkers ideas for our cities.

Writer Witi Ihimaera shares some of his favourite artists and cultural moments.  

Samoan-NZ writer Tusiata Avia became the target of harassment and death threats after her poem 250th anniversary of James Cook's arrival in New Zealand was labelled 'racist' by the ACT party. Her new poetry collection Big Fat Brown Bitch was partly written in response to that backlash.