Books

Louise Ward from Havelock North's Wardini Books reviews Turtles All The Way Down by John Green, published by Penguin Random House. Also Frida Nilsson's The Ice Sea Pirates. Published by Gecko Press. Audio

There's no doubt that life has changed markedly for Jane Harper since winning the Victorian Premier's Literacy Award for an Unpublished Manuscript back in 2015. The manuscript evolved into her… Audio

Hannah August reviews "Sodden Downstream" by Brannavan Gnanalingam. Published by Lawrence and Gibson. Audio

Lenora Chu was an American journalist working in Shanghai when she decided to enroll her three-year-old son in China's state-run public schools. What she discovered was a military-like education… Audio

Munich by Robert Harris, reviewed by Ralph McAllister. Audio

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