Books

Published by Headline. Reviewed by Louise O'Brien. Audio

Book reviewer Cushla Mc Kinney talks about The Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans. Audio

Published by Hachette. Reviewed by Jane Westaway. Audio

The Legend of Winstone Blackhat, written by Tanya Moir, published by Penguin Random House and reviewed by Elisabeth Easther. Audio

The UK journalist discusses the extraordinary story of Edward Snowden, and considers the action of spy agencies and their mass surveillance of populations the world over. Harding's interaction with… Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing his new collection, Whale Years, the Art4Vanuatu auction, and the new collection Charles Brasch: Selected Poems. Audio

Writer, filmmaker and artist whose participatory work includes the messaging app, Somebody. Her debut novel is The First Bad Man. Audio

Don't leave childhood without these true classic picture books: 'Each Peach Pear Plum' by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, 'Peepo' by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, 'Slinky Malinki' by Lynley Dodd, 'The Nickle… Audio

Damian Barr's first book Get it Together: A Guide to Surviving your Quarterlife Crisis. He interviewed 200 people in their twenties, showing that for most, their attitudes to work were their main… Audio

Biographer and teacher of memoir Deborah Shepard about her own journal-memoir Giving Yourself to Life, and the significance of writing as a means to accept and deal with suffering. Audio

Published by Macmillan, reviewed by Gyles Beckford. Audio

Welsh writer Jan Morris has had an incredibly long and illustrious career, and a fascinating, eventful life. Now 88, and the author of more than forty books on travel and history, she lived the first… Audio

'Charles Brasch Selected Poems Chosen by Alan Roddick', pPublished by Otago University Press and reviewed by Harry Ricketts. Audio

Maori Made Easy, and Swallow This, the two books today. Audio

Published by Penguin Random House. Reviewed by Harry Broad. Audio

Published by Auckland University Press. Reviewed by David Hill. Audio

An intensely personal memoir by one of the country's leading writers of fantasy, exploring the roots of her interest in alternative reality, and intertwining her own story, and that of her family into… Audio

Auckland novelist Karen Breen has released her debut novel Sleep Sister which addresses how a death impacts family dynamics. We meet sisters Gilly and Marina who have very different personalities and… Audio

New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, most recently, The ACB with Honora Lee (Random House). She will discuss the work of English author Mal Peet, who died at the start of… Audio

Published by Salt Publishing, reviewed by Kiran Dass. Audio