Books

Gina Rogers reviews Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, published by Penguin Random House. This is a brilliant Scandinavian novel with a fantastic cast of quirky characters. A riveting take on a dinner… Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae and Claudia Jardine. Edited by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

A family disappears without a trace after a road-trip along the West Coast highway. More than 30 years later, the body of one of the children is discovered. But he's several years older than when he… Audio

The idea of being part-owner of a $61,500 handbag may seem strange, but it's a growing trend. Online trading platform Rally Rd allows users to purchase shares in luxury items. Author Paul Sullivan… Audio

Since his schooldays, cartoonist and writer Tom Scott has greatly admired one of our national heroes: Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham, the only combat soldier to win the Victoria Cross twice. In his new… Audio, Gallery

Airini Beautrais reviews How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp. Published by Victoria University Press. Audio

Louise O'Brien reviews The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

In the next decade, the United States will undergo massive upheaval to make way for a new period of stability and prosperity that will kick off in the 2030s, according to prominent geopolitical… Audio

Melissa Wastney from Read NZ joined us to explain what the Online Platform, Hooked on Books can do for young New Zealand readers and reviewers. Audio

Marcus Greville from Unity Books, Wellington, reviews Miss Aluminium by Susanna Moore. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. In 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Susanna Moore… Audio

Wellington blogger Lucy Revill is crowd funding to publish a book about the city she loves and some of its dynamic and interesting residents. She founded the blog The Residents five years ago… Audio, Gallery

Australian author and comedian Mikey Robins tells stories of wonderfully awful people in his new book, Reprehensible: Polite Histories of Bad Behaviour. It's as funny as it is horrifying. Audio

Join us for this week's book quiz with Robert Kelly. Audio

Carole Beu, The Women's Bookshop, reviews Dominicana by Angie Cruz, published by Flatiron Books. Short-listed for this year's prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction. Ana is 15, obliged to marry a man… Audio