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The Pacific Games Council says the Tongan government needs to stick the contract it has signed relating to the hosting of the 2019 Games. Audio

Interactive Bible studies in Fiji are helping to break the silence over gender-based violence. Audio

Pip Adam writes about a female engineer, and human beings' desire to build tall structures in I'm Working on a Building (VUP), while Brandy Wehinger helps us to understand the loneliness of a new… Audio

Christchurch poet Karen Zelas, whose first collection, Night's Glass Table, won an Australian Publishing Prize. Audio

Riemke Ensing, who's one of the contenders for the Lauris Edmond poetry prize being announced on Sunday at the Christchurch Writers Festival. Audio

Ruth Todd is a stalwart of the Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival - which returns after a four year hiatus due to the earthquakes. Audio

Wellington-based author Catherine Robertson has been writing at breakneck speed. She's just released her second book The Not So Perfect Life of Mo Lawrence only a year after her debut novel, The Sweet… Audio

Journalist Bianca Zander, who can now add novelist to her CV with the publication by Penguin of The Girl Below. Audio

Our featured writers are visiting haiku authority, American Jim Kacian, and Mary Edmond-Paul, who talks about her latest book about writer and journalist Robyn Hyde. Audio

Children's illustrator and writer, David Elliot, in conversation with John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop. Audio

Melbourne-based New Zealand writer Julian Novitz takes us into the minds of three teenage misfits in his dark new novel, Little Sister. Audio

Novelist and short story writer Witi Ihimaera celebrates his debut, 40 years ago, the short story collection 'Pounamu Pounamu'. Audio

Versatile British writer Geoff Dyer talks about yoga, not writing a book on D H Lawrence, and why he's inspired by the cult Russian film 'Stalker'. Audio

Our featured writer is debut novelist Sacha de Bazin, who's tried to set the record straight about Minnie Dean, remembered in the history books as a baby killer and the only woman to be executed in… Audio

Aleksandra Lane moved to New Zealand from war-torn Serbia as a teenager in the mid 1990s. Her poetry talks about her life there, the realities of war on communities, and adjusting to life in a new and… Audio

Rachel Bush's book of poetry is filled with more than just nice pretty things. She explores themes of birth, aging, flora and fauna, alongside the unexpected. Audio

Traces of Red: Television ratings have dropped and glamorous television journalist Rebecca Thorne has lost her edge. In a bid to save her flailing career she begins to dig into the case of a convicted… Audio

A new poetry collection from Sue Wootton, By Birdlight; and in her memoir Twelve Minutes of Love, Kapka Kassabova explores the two sides of tango obsession, the light and the dark. Audio

Mark Sweet draws on his experience of travelling through China for his sensual debut novel 'Zhu Mao'. Audio

Tim Jones reveals how women may learn a thing or two in his book of poetry 'Men Briefly Explained'. Audio

Grahame Sydney's Central Otago: Moving beyond cliches, this publication is a document of Grahame's love of Central Otago which is beautifully illustrated in this pictorial masterpiece. And a bad girl… Audio

Canterbury novelist Joanna Orwin has a new, futurist story of a New Zealand changed by cataclysmic volcanoes and tsunami, Sacrifice. And we hear about some of the stories in a post-earthquake… Audio

Novelist Tanya Moir talks about her new book La Rochelle's Road, an account of the early settlers of Banks Peninsula. Audio

Our featured writer is French-American novelist, playwright and librettist Yann Appery, who's in Wellington on a Randall Cottage writer's residency. Audio