Joanne Drayton

Anne Perry the famous New Zealand crime novelist - formally Juliet Hulme the infamous Christchurch teenager convicted of murder - died last week at aged 84. The murder of Honorah Parker by her… Audio

Anne Perry, formerly known as Juliet Hulme - who served jail time along with Pauline Parker for the notorious murder of Parker's mother in Christchurch's Port Hills - has died, aged 84.

Perry was 15… Audio

New Zealand biographer Joanne Drayton made a name for herself writing about other people. In The Queen's Wife, she tells her own modern love story. Audio

Today we're looking back at cookery show 'Hudson and Halls,' which screened in New Zealand from 1976 to 1986. Biographer Joanne Drayton wrote about Peter Hudson and David Halls' life together and… Audio

In today's biography Joanne Drayton joins Jesse to talk about artists Frances Hodgkins.  Audio

For today's biography section we're talking about one of the main subjects of one of the most infamous and gripping cases in New Zealand history...It's the Parker-Hulme murder case.  Audio

Today's biography is on a man who himself was a biographer of some this country's most celebrated people, as well as a hugely respected historian, Michael King.  Audio

Joanne Drayton is in to chat about how a young woman from Christchurch managed to become one of the original Four Queens of Crime. Audio, Gallery

They chopped, they cooked, they bickered, they drank and camped up our TV screens; a book about Peter Hudson and David Halls has just won an Ockham New Zealand Book Award. Audio

Auckland-based Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards 2013 and the subject of a 60 Minutes… Audio

Biographer Joanne Drayton is on a residency at the Carey Institute for Global Good in New York State.

The Auckland English teacher and author of biographies of crime writer Ngaio Marsh, painters… Audio