Books

Writer of non-fiction, biography, poetry and screenplays, whose new small book, Barefoot Years, is a memoir of childhood, and part of a longer forthcoming work. Audio

Novelist, short story writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee, who writes about her "Katherine Mansfield project" in her recently published small book Thorndon:… Audio

Former All Black, now successful coach, John Kirwan has encouraged many men to seek help for depression - he has now turned his attention to helping teenagers with mental health issues. His book Stand… Audio

Charlotte Graham reviews "The Magisterium: The Iron Trial", by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black (Doubleday, RRP $34.99). It's a new YA fantasy novel that's the first in a planned five-book series… Audio

Shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird - the forthcoming NZ woman's comics anthology, Three Words. Audio

Two ancient and rare books have been donated to Kapiti book fair but their owners remain a mystery. Audio

Two ancient and rare books have been anonymously gifted to a Kapiti book fair. The annual Lions Monster Bookfair receives about 60,000 donated books per year. And this year, spokesperson Joe Franklin… Audio

Reviewed by Ralph McAllister. Published by Walker Books RRP$21.99. Audio

'Everyday Delcious' by Chelsea Winter and 'The Unbakery - Raw Organic Goodness' by Megan May. Audio

Us by David Nicholls. Published by Hodder RRP$37.99. Reviewed by David Hill. Audio

Reviewed by Carole Beu. Published by Little, Brown RRP$39.99. Audio

Brooklyn-based Maureen Callahan has worked as a writer for the New York Post as well as being a contributor for Vanity Fair - where she wrote about the extraordinary relationship between the late… Audio

Professor of English literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, visiting New Zealand as the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of… Audio

Author of the book, Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile, which tells the story of her father, one of the exiled Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944. Audio

'Awful Auntie' by David Walliams, published by Harper Collins, 'Speed of Light' by Joy Cowley, published by Gecko Press and 'Canterbury Quake' by Desna Wallace, published by Scholastic. Audio

Bonnie Greer is an author and award-winning playwright and has written more than a dozen radio plays, a short film, a documentary, two novels and a biography. She studied acting under David Mamet and… Audio

Reviewed by Gyles Beckford, published by Penguin. Audio

Reviewed by Lisa Finucane, published by HarperCollins. Audio

Rick Riordan is the best selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, based on the adventures of a teenage boy who at 12 discovers he is a demigod, the son of Sally Jackson and the… Audio

'The Silver Gaucho' by Jackie Ballantyne. Audio