Books
Book review: The Last Word

Consider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author. Then imagine how much more difficult it would be if the manipulative subject wants the work to confirm his legacy and status; his young, controlling wife
...Ben Atkins: One night out sleuthing

Bizarrely extreme. These are the words that spring to 20-year-old novelist Ben Atkins' mind when he ponders the Prohibition era compared to his
...Karl Ove Knausgaard: A writer's life

When Karl Ove Knausgaard began writing the books that have already made
...Book review: Hard hearts sure to break

When I review a book I'm always careful not to give away the ending. The tricky thing about Karen Joy Fowler's brilliant new novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent's Tail), is that the beginning of the story
...Luminaries picked for another international prize

The Luminaries author and Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton has more plaudits in sight after being longlisted for the international Women's Prize for Fiction.
The former Christchurch woman won the Booker prize - the biggest literary prize in the world - last year for her novel The
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