Books

Susan Holmes is one of the most successful textile artists to compete in the World of Wearable Arts competition. Susan still experiments with fabrics and techniques – spraying, potato-stamping and… Audio, Gallery

This year, authors and publishers contributed almost $400 million to the New Zealand economy. What is behind the comeback in publishing? Lynn Freeman asks Melanie Laville-Moore, president of the… Audio

Author and jazz composer Norman Meehan spoke to about 40 musos about the state of jazz in contemporary New Zealand, whether there's a distinctive New Zealand jazz sound - and what needs to happen if… Audio

William Grill is a London-based writer and illustrator. His first book, Shackleton's Journey (Flying Eye Books, ISBN 978-1-909263-10-9) won the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished… Audio

'Vera' and 'Shetland' author Ann Cleeves talks to Nine to Noon about what makes a cracking murder mystery. Her latest book 'Cold Earth', is Ann's thirtieth book in 30 years. Audio

If you've picked up an Oxford English Dictionary in the last 37 years, the chances are one of the definitions you read was written by John Simpson. Audio

Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White talks with Kathryn Ryan about summer gardening: what to plant, when to plant and watering through the summer. Audio

The 1986  pulp and paper mill strike in Kawerau were so bitter and divisive, they cast a shadow even now over the town. That's what author and former psychologist Helen McNeill discovered when she… Audio

The time of the Queen's visit to New Zealand for the 150th Treaty of Waitangi signing celebrations, is the setting for a new novel, We The Ones. Julie Helean has created an activist group where… Audio

Writer Kei Lum Chan joins Wallace to talk about his new book, The China Cookbook, which is set to become the new bible of Chinese cooking. Audio