One of the most celebrated poets of World War I was, for a short time, the toast of local society.

Eleanor Catton (28) became the youngest writer to win the Man Booker prize when The Luminaries, took the 45th Booker at the awards dinner this week.

A new biography fails to capture the turbulent life and death of one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors.

One of our most venerable poets extols the virtues not of the classical Greeks, but of their descendants.