Rotorua District Library members now have another way to read their favourite books with the launch of its new eBook (electronic book) collection today. And they could be in to win their own eReader device.

More than 60 New Zealand authors and 100 performers will be in Germany showcasing Kiwi artistic talents leading up to and during October's Frankfurt Book Fair where New Zealand is this year's Guest of Honour.

Wellington Ph.D student, Hamish Clayton has won the NZSA Best First Book Award for Fiction - the country's highest accolade for an emerging writer - for his novel, Wulf.

HarperCollinsPublishers has acquired exclusive worldwide publishing rights from Warner Bros.

Three years ago I signed up with Voxy to write travel stories. Ha, two and a half years and two kids later - there ain' t much travel been going on. So breaking with convention I have decided to write about whats going on in my life - that is being an 'un-yummy mummy'. 

The All Blacks' triumphant coach Graham Henry may have retired, but he has one team talk still to deliver - to rugby followers worldwide. It will come in the form of his biography, which is due to be published in August 2012.

A new release international conspiracy novel co-authored by New Zealand father-and-son writing team Lance and James Morcan has this week entered Amazon's top five bestseller list in the Spy Stories category.

Summer - for adults at least - is the perfect time to catch up on reading, and the idea of kicking back with a good novel is sheer bliss for many. But school children do not usually have books on top of their fun list, and reading levels can deteriorate over the six-week break as a result.

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The mark of Kiwi cartographers will be on every map in Earth Platinum, the world's biggest atlas to be published in December.

'Walking with the Taniwha' is the updated, brutally honest autobiography of Paul Bennett, his descent into drug and alcohol abuse, and his physical and mental battle to recovery.