Fiction

TVNZ has announced that it's pumping millions more dollars into local content. While there's no breakdown of how that money will be spent at this early stage, it's a fair bet that a chunk will go into… Audio

Professor Penny Pexman was part of a team that conducted a series of studies looking at sound symbolism in names and the findings were fascinating. Audio

Emma Clarke is a voiceover artist and 'When We Got To The Seventh' is her fiction podcast that revolves around an encounter with a seventh something: it could be a marriage, a planet, even a victim… Audio

Can a podcast be a vehicle for social change? Spoken-word poet and social commentator George Mpanga – aka George The Poet – explores that question in the unique, award-winning show Have You Heard… Audio

'Blackout' is a new fiction podcast looking at what could happen if power went down across the entire US. So imagine a world where mobile communications and the internet fail, and where news is hard… Audio

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft is a story that only got published after his death. Now it gets a modern makeover 90-odd years after it was written and… Audio

If you're a fan of classic detective fiction- think Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, maybe some Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot- then check out Shedunnit. It's made by Caroline Crampton who writes for… Audio

Ross Sutherland's a writer, poet and actor from Edinburgh who also makes a podcast called 'Imaginary Advice'. He does it all himself and calls the podcast the most important thing he makes, and a… Audio

Book critic Pip Adam talks about the books she's recommending to start 2019. She's been thinking about the importance of belief in a novel even if it's fiction. Pip is going to talk about the books… Audio

It's been 200 years since Mary Shelley's magnum opus was published - and its influence extends to the realms of medical history and bioethics Audio

Laura Kroetsch is director of Adelaide Writers' Week and Kate De Goldi is a fiction writer and book reviewer. The pair discuss their three favourite fiction and nonfiction books of 2017. Audio

In False River, writer Paula Morris takes us from the dark days of Hurricane Katrina to a witch burning in Denmark to very personal reflections on her remarkable mother. Paula told Lynn Freeman why… Audio

Robert Harris set his first alternative history novel in a world in which Hitler had won WWII. In his latest novel Munich, he re-examines the 1938 Munich Agreement between Hitler and British Prime… Audio

Ngaruawahia novelist Catherine Chidgey's fourth novel "The Wish Child" was 13 years in the writing but has now earned her the coveted $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction award. The judges says the… Audio

New Zealander Rebecca Denton has written a young adult fiction book titled This Beats Perfect. It's a romp through London's music industry following a teenage musician, and her dealings with the very… Audio

Eowyn Ivey's first novel, The Snow Child, became an international best-seller. She talks to Wallace from her home in Alaska about how her life got bigger when The Snow Child became a finalist for a… Audio