Vanda Symon

Vanda Symon has read around 160 books as a judge for this year's NZ Post Book Awards. Audio

'Citadel' by Kate Mosse. Audio

'Moranthology' by Caitlin Moran. Audio

'Gorse is not People' by Janet Frame and 'Standing In Another Man's Grave' by Ian Rankin. Audio

Reviewing 'Lives We Leave Behind' by Maxine Alterio and 'The Search for Anne Perry' by Joanne Drayton. Audio

Reviewing 'Shackleton's Whisky' by Neville Peat and 'Thirst' by L.A.Larkin. Audio

'The End of the Wasp Season' by Denise Mina and 'Elemental' by Brian Turner. Audio

'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern and 'Fate and Philosophy' by Jim Flynn. Audio

Three of New Zealand's most prominent crime writers - Paul Cleave, Vanda Symon and Paul Thomas - discuss how their stories are affected by their distinctly New Zealand setting. Audio

'Skylark' by Jenny Pattrick and 'Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking' by Susan Cain. Audio

Graham Beattie reviews 'The Faceless' by Vanda Symon, published by Penguin. Audio

Reviewing 'The Little Shadows' by Marina Endicott and 'The Woman Who Changed Her Brain' by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young. Audio

Reviewing 'Five Foot and Fearless' by Liz Williams and 'Gathering of the Lost' by Helen Lowe. Audio

'Seabird Genius' by Neville Peat and 'The Bird Sisters' by Rebecca Rasmussen. Audio

Reviewing 'In The Absence of Heroes' by Anthony McCarten and 'The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories' edited by Michael Sims. Audio

Traces of Red by Paddy Richardson and The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells. Audio

"Janet Frame: In Her Own Words", edited by Denis Harold and Pamela Gordon, and "Rangitira" by Paula Morris. Audio

'Fleur: The life and times of pioneering restaurateur Fleur Sullivan', by Fleur Sullivan; and 'The Broken Book', by Fiona Farrell. Audio

'Confessions of a Coffee Group Dropout' by Eleanor Black and 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller. Audio

'Headhunters' by Jo Nesbo, published by Yellow Bird and 'Trail' by Paul Sorrell, published by Penguin. Audio