Books
Book review: Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by Sir David
David Hill reviews Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield published by Hachette Audio
Book review: Tackling the Hens by Mary McCallum
Airini Beautrais reviews Tackling the Hens by Mary McCallum published by The Cuba Press Audio
Man vandalising high-profile women's biographies in Hamilton bookstore
A Hamilton bookstore owner says the actions of a man who keeps vandalising biographies of high-profile New Zealand women is disrespectful. Pennys' Bookstore owner Nichola Carter spoke to Ingrid… Audio
This Compulsion in Us - Tina Makereti
Award-winning novelist Tina Makereti has written her first nonfiction book. A collection of essays, This Compulsion In Us brings Tina's perspective as wahine Maori - that of a teacher, daughter… Audio
Raynor Winn: The Salt Path
What do you do when you lose everything? After being forcibly removed from their home, for Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, the answer was to set off on a 630-mile trek along the rugged Cornish… Audio
From cops to bookshops, and cosy crime
New Zealand adds to the cosy crime genre with Gareth and Louise Ward's The Bookshop Detectives. Audio
Susanna Clarke: coming back from a vanishing act
Booker Prize long-listed English author Susanna Clarke is one of the most influential fantasy writers of our time. Audio
Bookmarks with Damien Wilkins
Time for Bookmarks now and Jesse's guest today is author Damien Wilkins, who is this year's winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Damien… Audio
Book review: Kimi the Kekeno's Big Adventure by Shelley Burne-Field
Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Kimi the Kekeno's Big Adventure by Shelley Burne-Field, published by Allen and Unwin. Audio
Book review: Before the Winter Ends by Khadro Mohamed
Emma Hislop reviews Before the Winter Ends by Khadro Mohamed published by Tender Press. Audio
From Nazi Germany to Patagonia, lawyer Philippe Sands on his
Philippe Sands is a world-renowned lawyer, writer and winner of the UK's biggest non-fiction prize for his book East West Street. Audio
Book review: Nobody's Fool by Harlan Coben
Ralph McAllister reviews Nobody's Fool by Harlan Coben published by Century Audio
Wellington author Damien Wilkins wins Ockham Award
Wellingtonian Damien Wilkins took out the main fiction prize at Wednesday night's Ockham Book Awards. Wilkins spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
'We need more writers who can just remember': Ockham-winning wahine professor
A landmark Māori art history book has won Aotearoa's top prize for illustrated non-fiction.
Kiwi writer Graci Kim on getting cancelled
Kim writes fantasy books for kids, but the real world forces sometimes working against her aren't imaginary.
Why award-winning author Catherine Chidgey keeps hustling
The novelist has published four books in five years, but went 13 years without publishing anything.
Graci Kim
Award-winning author Graci Kim on her canceled U.S. book tour amid Trump-era bans—and how Korean resilience and Kiwi optimism made her a New York Times bestseller Video, Audio
Book Critic: new (ish) books for children
This month's theme does what it says on the tin! All these books have been published in the last year and are definitely worth talking about according to Catherine Ross, the Director of Library at… Audio
Book review: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
Kiran Dass reviews The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. Audio
Whakataukī of the Week with Emma Hislop
Award-winning author Emma Hislop (Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) joins Emile Donovan to share a whakataukī close to her heart. Audio
