Books

David Hill reviews The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood, which is published by Macmillan. Audio

This week's book critic, Penny Hartill discusses a few memoirs and through them, suggests they are the best genre for helping us to understand the past, particularly as it relates to colonialism. Audio, Gallery

Harry Ricketts from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa, reviews Landfall Magazine 237:Autumn 2019, edited by Emma Neale. Audio

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Behaviour of Love by Virginia Reeves, which is published by Simon & Schuster. Audio

The Boyfriend is the debut novel of Laura Southgate. It's a book that deals with the confusing, often painful time of finding yourself. It's the story of Erica, moving from her teens into her 20s and… Audio

Melanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews Places and Names by Elliot Ackerman, which is published by Allen Lane. A new kind of war reporting, written by a former US Marine who saw combat in… Audio

Holly Walker reviews Peat by Lynn Jenner, which is published by Otago University Press. Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews. This book is published by Bloomsbury. Audio

Jenna Todd has been reading Furious Hours by Casey Cep. This book is published by Penguin. Audio

This week's guest in the Musical Chair is renowned chef Bridget Davis who's just won the award for the Best Breakfast Cookbook at the prestigious World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Macau.  Audio

Writer Nancy Atkinson talks to Jim about her latest book, Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions, which features the untold stories of engineers and scientists behind the Apollo… Audio

Ian Telfer reviews Buddhism for Meat Eaters by Josephine Moon, which is published by Simon & Schuster. Audio

In the 1960s a group of new-age thinkers in the US had athletes and coaches convinced that with no more than the power of their own minds they could be bigger, faster and able to control their… Audio

Barry Crump was the original Good Keen Man, the humorous and care-free archetype of the New Zealand bloke. H Audio, Gallery

Chris Tse reviews The Art of Beer by Garage Project, which is published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Louise O'Brien, from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa, reviews Moonlight Sonata by Eileen Merriman. This novel is published by Penguin Random House. Audio