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REVIEW: There is an unsettling edge of nastiness just below the surface of Herman Koch’s Summer House with Swimming Pool, which is even more disquieting because it makes for a compulsively enjoyable novel. The novel’s only guide, Dr Marc Schlosser, quickly proves himself to be anything but trustworthy

Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand’s most successful children’s authors and has recently written two books about that iconic insect, Buzzy Bee.

“IT WAS 1995 and I had just turned seven. I started saving my pocket money religiously to make my first ever purchase.

Like father, like son – two handsome men. On the left, Robert De Niro: one of the greatest actors of his generation, his career more recently tarnished by his perplexing decision to appear in all sorts of rubbish.

REVIEW: Known in its native France by far less depressing sounding Time for Adventure, this romantic-drama is a strange cross between Le Weekend and Before Sunset. Forty-three-year-old struggling actress Alix (Coco Before Chanel’s Emmanuelle Devos) is travelling from Calais back to her native Paris when her eye catches that of sad-looking English literature professor Doug (Gabriel Byrne)

Shihad will donate their profit-share from New Zealand’s first ever pay-per-view music gig to the Christchurch Earthquake Recovery fund. The one-off September 12 concert at Christchurch’s CBS Arena will showcase the veteran band’s ninth album, FVEY, with the 4000 tickets given away: but in a New Zealand first, television viewers will be asked to pay $19.95 to tune in live on TV channel Sky Arena.

Madonna thinks her daughter Lourdes has what it takes to be the next big star.