Books

'The Lie Tree' by Frances Hardinge. Audio

Reviewed by Graham Beattie. Published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Julie Thomas found an international readership for her 2013 debut novel The Keeper of Secrets, about a Jewish family the Horovitz's during the Second World War. She's continuing the family story, this… Audio

Kate Camp discusses My Own Story, the 1914 memoir by suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst. Audio

Lesley Stead of Paige's Book Gallery in Whanganui reviews four picture book biographies for children; Swan. The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, Manfish, A Story of Jacques Cousteau, and… Audio

Reviewed by Rae McGregor and published by Harper Collins. RRP$34.99 Audio

From human mutants to the evolution of pop music, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Armand Leroi talks about using science to understand life and culture. Audio, Gallery

Reviewed by Leah McFall, published by Fourth Estate. Audio

Maria is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular… Audio

Reviewed by David Hill, published by Macmillan. Audio

'American Blood' by Ben Sanders and 'The Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr. Audio

Reviewed by Quentin Johnson, published by Orion. Audio

What gets published and what doesn't? How is it presented and illustrated? What gets heavily-edited and what sticks close to the original? These are all decisions made behind the closed doors of the… Audio

Rick Gekoski is regarded as one of the world's leading bookmen: a rare-book dealer, non fiction writer, broadcaster, academic - and soon to be first time published novellist, in his 70s. He's got to… Audio

It goes without saying that there isn't a psychological problem or emotional dilemma that hasn't, in some way or another, been explored in the world of literature. But does reading fictional accounts… Audio

sirens before dawn someone meets their neighbour for the first time - this Haiku by Doc Drumheller is from Leaving the Red Zone - poems from the Canterbury earthquakes - an anthology of poetry from… Audio

Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science, a new collection of writings by… Audio

Reviewed by Tilly Lloyd, published by Steele Roberts Publishing, Sir Lloyd Geering's intrepid cycling journeys around NZ as a young man in the 1930s and '40s. Audio

Reviewed by Jane Westaway, published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund by Elizabeth Caffin and Andrew Mason. Reviewed by Harry Ricketts, co-editor of the quarterly review, New Zealand Books. Audio