Books

Reviewed by Elisabeth Easther. Published by Doubleday. Audio

'The colour of food - A memoir of life, love and dinner' by Anne Else. Audio

Shark is set in an experimental residential community in North West London run by anti-psychiatrist Zack Busner, a character who will be familiar to fans. As with Shark, Self's subject matter often… Audio

Founder and director of theatre company Little Dog Barking, whose production of Duck, Death and the Tulip, won an Outstanding Theatre award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Audio

American journalist and author on his new book, The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification. Audio

Professor Emerita in Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and author of The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Audio

Kiran Dass reviews 'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves' by Karen Joy Fowler, published by Serpent's Tail. Audio

NBC senior writer, Tony Dokoupil had always believed his privileged childhood was due to his father's successful real estate career. Then he discovered his dad was in fact a top drug smuggler and… Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews 'The Bone Clocks' by David Mitchell, published by Hodder & Stoughton Audio

'New York Is' by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Audio

New Zealand author discussing three novels for middle readers: Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, and One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. Audio

Professor of Utopian Studies at the University of Nottingham and author of books and articles on the topic of political utopianism, who delivered the 2014 Robert Chapman Lecture at the University of… Audio

New Zealand playwright who has been living in New York as the third recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency and is back here for the Auckland Theatre Company's world premiere… Audio

Owner with her husband Garry of the Rocklands farm near Takaka, who has written the memoir, Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life. Audio

Today's books are: Guinness Book of Records 2015, published by Guinness and The 52 Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, published by Pan MacMillan. Audio

Henry Marsh, CBE, is one of Britain's top neurosurgeons, a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine, and a specialist in operating on the brain under local anaesthetic. He is the subject of the… Audio

Written by Stuart Neville, published by Harvill Secker, reviewed by Rae McGregor. Audio

Twenty-five years ago the hydraulics systems aboard a United Airlines Flight from Denver to Chicago failed at 37,000 feet with 296 people on board. Miraculously, the pilot was able to make a crash… Audio

Simon Gault - 'Modern Classics'; and Annnbael Langbein - 'The Free Range Cook Through the Seasons'. Audio

Dan Pearson began his career as a teenager in the burger vans and factory kitchens of Northampton, England and worked his way up over the years ending up at the Michelin-starred Foliage at the… Audio