Books
Book review: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donaghue
Demi Cox of Unity Books Auckland reviews The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donaghue Audio
Lyttleton Habour history - an incredible story
Author, historian and educator Dr Jane Robertson has written not one, but two fantastic books about the bays of Lyttleton Harbour. Her second one is called Living Between Land & Sea, The Bays of… Audio
Book review: 50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down
Harry Broad reviews 50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down by Tessa Anderson published by Tessa Anderson Audio
The power of comic books
The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University. Audio
The power of comic books
The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University.
AudioBookmarks with Akiko Kurematsu
This week's guest for bookmarks is Akiko Kurematsu, a culture writer and journalist who uses her multicultural and mutlilingual background to work. Audio
Book review: Jenny McLeod: A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
Glenda Keam reviews Jenny McLeod: A Life in Music by Norman Meehan published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio
Book Critic: Dominic Hoey
Today Dominic talks to Jesse about the latest work from David Grann, The Wager. This book, like his previous one, Killers of the Flower Moon, has also had the screen rights acquired by Martin Scorsese… Audio
Book review: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Lynn Freeman reviews The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride published by Hachette Audio
Kiwi booksellers start website to take on Amazon
In bookshops throughout the country, a small band of booksellers has decided to take on Amazon in their very own David v Goliath fight.
Paul Lynch on his Booker shortlisted novel Prophet Song
Irish novelist Paul Lynch's latest book Prophet Song was shortlisted last month for this year's Booker Prize. The novel is set is a dystopian version of Dublin, after an unspecified crisis has tipped… Audio
Auē! The story behind a modern literary classic
In this extract from Everything I Know About Books Mary McCallum, of Mākaro Press explains how she came to publish a modern New Zealand classic - Auē! by Becky Manawatu.
Book review: Don Binney: Flight Path by Greg O'Brien
Sonja de Friez reviews Don Binney: Flight Path by Greg O'Brien published by Auckland University Press Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Maybe reviews Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh; Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder; Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger. Audio
Book review: The Twat Files by Dawn French
Cynthia Morahan reviews The Twat Files by Dawn French published by Penguin Random House. Audio
Book review: The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
Louise O'Brien reviews The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa published by Penguin Random House Audio
Rebecca Priestley: navigating end times
Rebecca Priestley's new memoir End Times moves between recollections of teen punk nihilism and a flirtation with born again Christianity, to a modern day climate anxiety-fuelled South Island road… Audio
Cristina Rivera Garza: grief demanding justice
It took Mexican scholar, novelist, and poet Cristina Rivera Garza 30 years to be able to write about what happened to her younger sister. Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive boyfriend in… Audio
Book review: Transposium by Dani Yourukova
Melissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Transposium by Dani Yourukova, published by Auckland University Press. RRP $30.00 Audio
