Books

Expert natural history writer Janet Hunt has written extensively about our forests, wetlands, sanctuaries and protecting our native wildlife. Janet tells Kathryn Ryan about her latest book How to Mend… Audio, Gallery

Cassius Clay exploded onto the boxing scene as the charismatic and controversial fighter known as The Louisville Lip in 1960 he went on, as Muhammad Ali, to become the most famous man in the world. Video, Audio

Susanna Andrew reviews City of Crows by Chris Womersley, published by Pan Macmillan Australia. Audio

November is National Novel Writing Month, where writers sign up to write 50,000 words over the 30 days in November, a goal reached by more than 34, 000 writers internationally last year (though… Audio

Doug Van Belle is passionate about getting books into the hands of children and their carers. He is part of a literacy programme called Fund a Book NZ, and its aim is to raise funds to support the… Audio

High profile New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird has been named as a 2017 Arts Foundation New Generation Artist, receiving $25,000 along with it. Audio

Jonathan Mosen reviews Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Jenna Todd from time out bookstore reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, published by Bloomsbury. Audio

Florenz Maxwell is a Bermudian author and activist who was part of the underground group that successfully ended segregation through a series of theatre boycotts in 1959. She's just published a young… Audio

Niki Ward from Ekor Bookshop reviews The Inner Life of Animals - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

Networks and hierarchies have together shaped society and we need to balance out the tension between them, historian Niall Ferguson says in his new book. Audio

Massey University historian Adam Claasen has written an extraordinary book telling the previously untold story of New Zealand's Great War airmen. While much has been written about our Kiwi soldiers at… Audio, Gallery

The former proprietor of the NZ Herald, Michael Horton, collaborated with history professor Russell Stone from the University of Auckland, to tell the story of Sir John Logan Campbell, in Sir John's… Audio, Gallery

The teen book game is a huge market, the number of young adult fiction books published has more than doubled in the last decade. Not to mention the movies... Now a kiwi author, has broken into that… Audio