Books

Quentin Johnson reviews So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Phil Vine reviews Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, published by HarperCollins. Audio

Isa Pearl Ritchie writes about a family in crisis in her novel, Fishing for Maui, drawing on her own experiences as a young person who's struggled with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. Audio

Irreverent Australian children's writers like Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths have a huge following over here, and an expert at reading their works out loud is heading to New Zealand libraries. Stig… Audio

David Brown was the ultimate traveller. His outlook was shaped by the places many of us wouldn't dare to visit. From Belarus to Rwanda, Damascus to Transnistria and the Syrian city of Palmyra before… Audio, Gallery

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb from University Book Shop, Otago reviews Florida by Lauren Groff, published by: Penguin. Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews The Nine-Chambered Heart by Janice Pariat, published by HarperCollins. Audio

Louise O'Brien from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Books, reviews The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney, published by HarperCollins. Audio

We trust photographers to capture the most important days of lives. Weddings! But what do they deal with? It's not just bad lighting and unruly ring-bearers. It's drunken uncles, tears from the mother… Audio

Kiran Dass from Timeout book store reviews Crudo by Olivia Laing, published by Picador. Audio

Jane Westaway reviews The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, published by: Chatto & Windus. Audio

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio

Melanie O'Loughlin from Unity Books reviews The Pisces by Melissa Broder, which is published by Bloomsbury. Circus Audio

Laura Caygill reviews You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld, which is published by Doubleday. Audio

Niki Ward reviews Meariki: The Quest for Truth by Helen Pearse-Otene, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, published by Huia. Audio