Books & Authors

Peter talks to Kathryn about the storm affected north, calls for clampdown on dogs in wake of fatal attack, the emerging summer problem of "Hoons on dunes" and kitten yoga debuts in the Bay of… Audio

After publishing his John le Carré biography in 2015, Adam Sisman has returned to the subject. One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, John le Carré - who's real name is David Cornwell -… Audio

Internationally bestselling Australian author Robyn Davidson's new memoir Unfinished Woman delves into her past to investigate time and memory, asking how can we learn to be 'at home everywhere'? A… Audio

Two-time US National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward's latest novel Let Us Descend tackles the hellish reality of life as a chattel slave. Modelled on Dante's Inferno, and based on extensive historical… Audio

Demi Cox of Unity Books Auckland reviews The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donaghue Audio

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

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 and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University.  Audio

What you are is not the whole story about who you are. Values rather than identity have always been the glue that holds democracies together. Before "woke" became a political slogan, professor Yascha… Audio

This week's guest for bookmarks is Akiko Kurematsu, a culture writer and journalist who uses her multicultural and mutlilingual background to work. Audio

Glenda Keam reviews Jenny McLeod: A Life in Music by Norman Meehan published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio

Dr Robert Waldinger has been studying human happiness and the secret to it for decades. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the the Harvard Study of Adult… Audio

Lynn Freeman reviews The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride published by Hachette Audio

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

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.

Sonja de Friez reviews Don Binney: Flight Path by Greg O'Brien published by Auckland University Press Audio

Failure happens. It's not a glitch, but an inevitable part of life. But most of us fail to learn from failure, letting fear and shame get in the way says Harvard Business School professor Amy… Audio