Books

Maureen Garing talks with Bryan Bruce about his book 'Jesus: the Cold Case'. Audio

Suspense novelist (Burial, Captured) and screenwriter (Spooks, Luther). Audio

Karen Healey is an author and gender researcher, whose latest book, a supernatural teen novel entitled "Guardian of the Dead", mixes Maori myths into contemporary fantasy. Audio

Christchurch's Gavin Bishop is a prize-winning children's book author and illustrator, and he is currently part of an exhibition on show at Canterbury Museum called "Wairua - Tikanga Maori in New… Audio

Australian crime writer and former print journalist and editor, who has won widespread acclaim for his novels The Broken Shore and Truth. Audio

Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Auckland, and author of Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1821-1920, which documents 100 years of the Tuhoe people. Audio

Historian, author, broadcaster, and cultural critic, whose most recent book is The American Future; he will headline Writers and Readers Week during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010. Audio

The extraordinary works of film-maker, sculptor, painter and poet - Len Lye Audio

The book "A Decade of Disasters in the Chatham Islands", outlines a series of tragedies and conflicts in an eventful decade from 1866 to 1875. Audio

"Although this is not the truth, it's actual." Beginning with readings from the self-described "odd men out" of New Zealand literature, this session traces Greg McGee's writing of a TV mini-series on… Audio

"When you've been fired and made redundant, you tend to lose faith in the people who employ you. And you think that you might like to employ yourself for a while, because you can guarantee that you… Audio

"Some glittering, eventful lives are in fact, repetitive and depressing… It's the drama of individuation which gives a biography its suspense, and cuts through the trivia of life to its vital… Audio

This week Chris talks to Canadian journalist and author Dan Gardner. Audio

Fantasy writer whose first adult novel for a decade, Lavinia, re-imagines the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid. Audio

Kate Camp will discuss the 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Audio

Author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book, and guest speaker at the upcoming conference, The Future of the Book, in Auckland. Audio

International authority on children's books and reading, innovative bookseller and author of two volumes of memoirs: There Was a Time, and All This and a Bookshop Too. Audio