April 2016
This page lists books by writers interviewed on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, or books discussed by Kim and a guest. Books are usually published in the current year, or the one previous, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
30 April (guest host Jim Mora)
The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young
by Gary Small
(2003, Hyperion, ISBN 0786887117)
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
by Susan David :
(Penguin, ISBN 9780241254929)
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America & the Environment
Corey Bradshaw and Paul Ehrlich
(2015, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226316987).
Things My Mother Told Me
contributors include Tiriel Mora
(Echo Publishing, ISBN 9781760069995)
23 April (guest host Charlotte Graham)
The Politics of Love
essay by Max Harris from the collection The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand
(BWB Texts, ISBN 9780947492649 )
An Elegy for Easterly
by Petina Gappah
(2009, Faber & Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-24694-6)
The Book of Memory
by Petina Gappah
(2015, Faber & Faber, ISBN 978-0-57124-962-6)
Instrumental: a Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
by James Rhodes
(2015, Canongate, ISBN 978-1782115342)
16 April (guest host Toby Manhire)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
(Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-24126-085-2)
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi:
Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case
by Ulf Nilsson, illustrated by Gitte Spee
(Gecko Press, ISBN 978-1-776570-65-2)
Night Sky Dragons
by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, illustrated by Patrick Benson
(2014, Candlewick Press, ISBN 978-0-7636-6144-1)
9 April (guest host Philippa Tolley)
A History of New Zealand Women
by Barbara Brookes
(Bridget Williams Books, ISBN 978-090832-145-2).
Sharon and My Mother in Law: Ramallah Diaries
by Suad Amiry
(2004, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-86207-811-6)
Golda Slept Here
by Suad Amiry
(2014, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, ISBN 978-9-92710-146-5)
Moranifesto
by Caitlin Moran
(Ebury Press, ISBN: 978-0-09194-905-1)
Kate Camp’s classic:
Georgy Girl
by Margaret Forster
(1965, Vintage)
2 April (guest host Colin Peacock)
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey - and Even Iraq - are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
(2010, Nation Books)
Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies
by Yossi Alpher
(2015, Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 978-1-4422-3101-6)
No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine
by Yossi Alpher
(2016, Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 978-1-4422-5858-7)
A Beautiful Hesitation
by Fiona Pardington
(2016, VUP, ISBN 978-1-77656-054-7)