Books

Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio

Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Audio

Written by Dylan Horrocks, Published by Victoria University Press, reviewed by Graham Beattie. Audio

 Reviewed by John King Published by Mantle, RRP$37.99. Audio

Natalie Haynes is a writer, classicist and comedian, whose first novel, The Amber Fury, has just been published. She also wrote the book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, has made numerous… Audio

Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington whose main research interests are in the ethics of the new genetics and biotechnology. His new book is Truly Human Enhancement: A… Audio

American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Audio

Ben Atkins has just had Random House publish his first novel - he's just 19 but you wouldn't know it from his noir crime-story set in the Prohibitionist Depression-era USA. It's called Drowning City.

Editor at Granta Books whose first publishing project was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. Audio

Howard Blum, American journalist and author of 'Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America', the true-life tale of German spying and sabotage on… Audio

Co-founded by Ivo Watts-Russell, English indie record label 4AD was funded by Beggars Banquet founder Martin Mills who recognised Russell's singular A&R vision. Between 1980 and 1999 Russell signed a… Audio

Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Audio

Author of the recently published New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, historian Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war. El Alamein was the first battle Damien took a real interest in… Audio

Kate Camp discusses We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter, the 1939 autobiographical classic about his experiences as a conscientious objector during the First World War. Audio

Three leading artists: the singer Madeleine Pierard; the children's book illustrator Gavin Bishop and playwright and actor Jacob Rajan discuss why they create work with Paul Bushnell. Awa Press writer… Audio

Tan Twan Eng trained as a lawyer and worked as a solicitor in one of Kuala Lumpur's law firms before becoming a full-time writer. His latest novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, was shortlisted for the… Audio

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton whose second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Audio

Mike Gourley profiles the book 'On a Mission' - the story of author Shaun Davison and the twenty-one other young men training to be Marist priests at the Mount St. Mary's seminary in Hawkes Bay. Audio

Maria Popova's Brainpickings website, weekly emailer, and associated Twitter feed's a magnet for hundreds of thousands of people all over the world on the hunt for thought-provoking writing. Audio