Books

Tim Watson-Munro is Australia's best-known criminal psychologist, as much for the dramas in his own life as for the cases he's been associated with. But many of those cases have been sensational, and… Audio

Robert Harris set his first alternative history novel in a world in which Hitler had won WWII. In his latest novel Munich, he re-examines the 1938 Munich Agreement between Hitler and British Prime… Audio

You get things done if you like doing them, says King Country farmer, vet, wife, mother and rural romance author Danielle Hawkins. Her latest novel is The Pretty Delicious Cafe. Audio

Unity Books Review: Elmet by Fiona Mozley, reviewed by Kiran Dass. Published by John Murray Originals Audio

Australian husband and wife writers Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist have teamed up to write a book together after very successful individual careers. Graeme is the author of the runaway hit The Rosie… Audio

You may remember last week when we were in Dunedin we were talking about recipes in books and I thought that perhaps there were recipes in the classic Ulysses by James Joyce. Audio

Rachel Eadie from Scorpio Books reviews 'Aotearoa The New Zealand Story' by Gavin Bishop. Published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

'Islands of the Gulf' by Shirley Maddock and Don Whyte, reviewed by David Hill. Published by HarperCollins. Audio

"Double Exposure" by Brian Johnstone, reviewed by Ian Johnstone, published by Saraband. Audio

The Stranger by Melanie Raabe, reviewed by Catriona Ferguson, published by Text publishing. Audio

In Tamil-New Zealander Brannavan Gnanalingam's latest novel, a refugee is desperate to get to Wellington City from the Hutt Valley, despite a 'once-in-a-century' flood. The roads are blocked and… Audio

New Zealand's history, present and possible future is told in Christchurch illustrator and writer Gavin Bishop's most ambitious children's book yet. Aotearoa The New Zealand Story starts 65 million… Audio

Efforts to save our heritage buildings over the years - successful and unsuccessful - are being researched by the winner of one of the biggest non-fiction prizes for New Zealand writers. Wellington… Audio

We should be wonderfully proud of New Zealand food culture, says shepherd-turned-chef Al Brown. He updates Kiwi classics like such as roast lamb, corned beef and cheese scones in the new book Eat Up… Audio

Diana Wichtel is an award-winning journalist. After gaining an MA at the University of Auckland, she tutored English before moving into journalism, and is perhaps best known for her long-standing… Audio

Leah McFall reviews "What Happened" by Hillary Clinton. Published by Simon and Schuster. Audio