Books

Auckland writer best known for her paranormal romance fantasy novels, including the New York Times bestselling Psy/Changeling series. Audio

Entrepreneur behind the long-running underground New Zealand music entity A Low Hum, which has involved him putting out magazines, CDs, DVDs vinyl and cassette releases, touring bands around the… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews 'The Emperor Waltz' by Philip Hensher, published by Fourth Estate. Audio

Don Rood reviews 'How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War'. Edited by Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts. Published by Victoria University Press, Audio

The Boring Book won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and Best Picture Book at last week's New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Author, designer and illustrator Vasanti… Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page, and One Human in Height by Rachel O'Neill. Audio

Pupils from Wellington's Te Aro school review this year's finalists in the junior fiction category. 'A Winter's Day in 1939' by Melinda Szymanik, Scholastic New Zealand. Reviewed by Jasper and Issi… Audio

American guitarist and eccentric visionary John Fahey may have always been an outsider, but he went on to release an iconic catalogue of more than 40 albums and created the template for 'American… Audio

International anti-corruption consultant who divides his time between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, and has just produced The Sound of Words, a book and CD of poetry. Audio

Founder of the Book Sprints process, which helps groups create books from scratch in three to five days. He is about to take up a position at the Public Library of Science in San Francisco. Audio

Historical biographer and author of a number of books, most recently Fitz: the Colonial Adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald. Audio

Pupils from Wellington's Te Aro school review this year's finalists in the picture books category: 'Machines and Me: Boats by Catherine Foreman', Scholastic New Zealand. Reviewed by Jasper and Amon… Audio

Night Vision by Ella West, published by Allen and Unwin and Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks, published by Random House, reviewed by John McIntyre. Audio

Curioseum - a collection of short stories from behind the scenes at Te Papa. Adrienne Jensen is editor of "The Curioseum" - a collection of extraordinary stories and poems from some of New Zealand's… Audio

In her first novel 'A History of Crime - The Southern Double-Cross', Dinah Holman takes us back to the New Zealand of the 1880s when dubious land deals were being done by unscrupulous speculators and… Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 June 2014. Audio

Kim and Kate discuss three books for 8-11 year olds by American writer Kevin Henkes: Sun and Spoon, Olive's Ocean, and Junonia. Audio

Music critic at Slate, whose 2007 book about Celine Dion has just been issued in an expanded edition: Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. Audio

British journalist and novelist Lucy Hawking and her father, the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have written four novels together based on science for a young readership. The books introduce… Audio

Zac is the writer of two financial and self-help books and at 24 (and barely of out college) he released his third Good Advice from Bad People; Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and… Audio