I'm very excited to announce the brand-new launch of antoniamurphy.com , where you can hear about the books I've been writing, Rou...

At the tippy-top of New Zealand is Cape Reinga: a dry, gritty, windswept place where people go to die. More accurately, it’s where those who...

They don’t like John Cleese in Palmerston North. And he doesn’t like them, either. In 2005, Cleese visited the town while touring with his ...

We were having a perfectly nice day in the park when my ice cream shot up my nose. “Tell me that’s not a mural of dolphins playing under a ...

When Europeans landed on the West Coast in 1846, they encountered unbelievably hostile terrain. The northwest edge of the South Island was m...

People who suffer from irrational phobias cope with a host of unpleasant symptoms, such as heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and the ...

Peter and I recently attended the Convergence Festival , where we hoped to cavort with naked hippies and obtain enlightenment. Unfortunatel...

Peter looked to starboard, and he saw a wall of white. Is that a wave? It couldn’t be a wave. He looked again, squinting into the darknes...

Knocked down twice in Cook Strait. Arrived Lyttleton. Everyone safe. More later.

My father used to hang glide when I was a kid. He told me the best hang glider was the guy who got up at five o’clock in the morning, packe...

Napier is known as the Art Deco City, because the whole place was rebuilt in the 1930’s, when people thought Art Deco was neat because it re...