A host of former winners and a healthy injection of first-time writers are in the running for some of the top literary prizes ...

Popular books that pack a punch and have hit the mark with readers across the motu in the past year have also found favour ...

Damien Wilkins is on track to win the $65,000 fiction prize for his novel Delirium. CK Stead, at 92, is the oldest author on the list, with his book of poems in honour of his late wife Kay, In the ...