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The vampires of the Twilight saga saturated modern media for a while, but now they've been booted out by the warriors of The Hunger Games, in which young people in an imaginary society not too removed from our own are selected to fight to the death.

Ahead of World Blood Donor Day on 14 June, the New Zealand Blood Service is sending a special thanks to the more than 17,000 Kiwis aged 50+ who give blood on a regular basis.

Number One bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a new Kathryn Dance thriller.

I like to travel light but there is one item I always manage to squeeze into my hand luggage when I fly out: a plane book. On our recent trip to South America I took 'The Chaperone."

Email is the most used computer application, and the most frustrating and never-ending.

At the end of 2011 Wellington publisher Steele Roberts released Travels without a Donkey: sketches from here and there by Richard Donald.

Allan Dick after heart surgery

More hilarious jokes from the irrepressible Horrid Henry - his most totally brilliant, fiendishly funny, utterly wicked joke book yet.

Each evocative and informative review is written by a leading spirits expert and includes details on heritage and production method, as well as tantalizing tasting notes to tease the readers' palates.

If you're already on Twitter, you may have noticed the Follow Friday Concept that's usually hash-tagged #FollowFriday or #FF.