Pip Adam
Book critic: Pip Adam
Pip has been thinking about books and war, after she saw bill-boards for a new television adaptation of Catch 22. She reviews Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019) by Ocean… Audio
Book review by Pip Adam
Pip reviews The Radicals, by Marolyn Krasner; The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox and she talks about the latest edition to the Future Library Project. Audio
Pip Adam surveys creative non-fiction
Author and critic Pip Adam goes on a journey into the world of new creative non-fiction being written in Aotearoa. Audio
Books with Pip Adam
Book critic Pip Adam talks about the books she's recommending to start 2019. She's been thinking about the importance of belief in a novel even if it's fiction. Pip is going to talk about the books… Audio
The Kiwis who made a big impression in 2018
A pay equity campaigner, a surfing mathematician and teenage Winter Olympic medallists are among the Kiwis whose efforts stood out in 2018.
Book critic: Pip Adam
Pip looks at books that are unexpectedly comforting. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Sea Oak and The Simplica Girl Diaries by George Saunders, and Beatrix Potter's collected… Audio
Book critic Pip Adam
Pip Adam tells us about some writers who are also visual artists, including Sam Duckor-Jones, Flannery O'Connor and Rebecca Hawkes Audio
Book critic Pip Adam
Pip discusses 3 new NZ books: The Facts by Therese Lloyd Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath And Helen Rickerby's poem: George Eliot: A Life Audio
Pip Adam on the "monstrous feminine" in literature
We're honoured to have our regular book critic, Pip Adam in. Today Pip is talking about the 'monstrous feminine' - an idea that challenges the idea of women as victims. Audio
The Ockham Book Awards Supreme Winner - Pip Adam
Pip Adam's experimental novel, The New Animals has taken out New Zealand's top fiction prize. The novel parodies the Auckland fashion scene; part gritty social realism, part science fiction. Judges… Audio
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Women writers dominate wins
Women have taken out all but one of the county's top literary prizes at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Writers, book lovers and publishers filled up the Aotea Centre in Auckland last night to… Audio
Book critic - Pip Adam
Pip Adam talks about the essay as a form of non fiction writing . Audio
Kapiti Writer’s Retreat
The old saying don't let the facts get in the way of a good story usually applies to journalism, but a speaker at a writers retreat in Kapiti is going to argue that that also holds true when writing… Audio
Book critic Pip Adam
Pip talks about the various ways we find out about books, including recommendations, interviews and bookshop staff. Audio
Book critic, Pip Adam
Pip talks about some of the writers appearing at two upcoming writers' festivals. Audio
Book critic Pip Adam
With the announcement of the 13th doctor, Pip Adam looks at books that do strange things with time and space. 'Our Future is in the Air' by Tim Corballis, 'Anti Lebanon' by Carl Shuker, and 'Legend of… Audio
New animals of the fashion industry
Gen X and Millenial fashion industry egos clash in the new novel by Pip Adam - The New Animals, published by Victoria University Press. Audio
