Books
Book review - The Museum of Forgotten Memories
Catriona Ferguson reviews The Museum of Forgotten Memories by Anstey Harris, published by Simon & Schuster. Audio
Scandal and self isolation with the ghost of Edith Wharton
Physical distancing, pandemic politics and a looming financial crash. It sounds contemporary, but it is also the world that novelist and poet Edith Wharton found herself in writing and living through… Audio
Afternoons Book Quiz with Robert Kelly 24 June 2020
Afternoons Book Quiz with Robert Kelly. Robert joins Jesse to test the audience book knowledge and Jesse's! Audio
Book review - From Suffrage to a Seat in the House
Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews From Suffrage to a Seat in the House: The path to parliament for New Zealand women by Jenny Coleman. Published by Otago University Press. Audio
Lisa Glass reviews 3 books set in US swampland
Lisa Glass reviews Where the Crawdads Sing, The Marsh King's Daughter and Swamplandia! Audio
Book review - You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir by C.K. Stead
Harry Ricketts reviews You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 by C.K. Stead. This book is published by Auckland University Press. Audio
Book review - Hunting Game by Helene Tursten
John King reviews Hunting Game by Helene Tursten, published by Text. Audio
Book review - Royals by Emma Forres
Sonja de Friez reviews Royals by Emma Forrest, published by Bloomsbury. Audio
Book review - Nothing to See by Pip Adam
Louise O'Brien reviews Nothing to See by Pip Adam, published by Victoria University Press. Audio
Afternoons Quiz with Robert Kelly
Every week Robert Kelly puts some questions linked to books to the audience. Audio
Book review - Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke
Chris Tse reviews Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke, published by The Cuba Press. Audio
Claire Mabey's good reads
Book critic and director of Verb Wellington Claire Mabey reviews Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Nothing to See by Pip Adam and a free online poetry journal Saltwater Love Zine. Audio
Book review - Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?
David Hill reviews Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson, published by Auckland University Press. Audio
Book review - Footprints, In Search of Future Fossils by David
Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books, Wellington, reviews Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier. Published by Fourth Estate. Audio
Book review - The Undying. A Meditation on Modern Illness by An
Kiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer, published by Allen Lane. Audio
Why friendship is good for your health
When English writer CS Lewis wrote that "friendship has no survival value" he wasn't quite correct, says science journalist Lydia Denworth. Friendship is, in fact, as important for your physical… Audio
Book Review - Wayfinding by Michael Bond
Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin, reviews Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond. This book is published by Pan Macmillan. Audio
Mario Livio uncovers the science deniers
The sun never revolved around the earth, Galileo knew it and paid the price for saying so. Fast forward 400 years and there's something that does keep going around and around the world, science… Audio
Book Review - Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
Ralph McAllister reviews Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon, published by Simon and Schuster. Audio
Book review - Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron
Holly Walker reviews Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life after Near Death by Caroline Barron, published by David Bateman Limited. Audio
