Author Interview

Our guest picking the music is Kiran Dass, one of New Zealand's most trusted book reviewers and director of WORD Christchurch.  Audio

You may know Claire Mabey as the founder of the Verb Wellington Festival, perhaps as co-curator of the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts writers programme, or as a book reviewer. Now she's adding… Audio

Award-winning New Zealand author Shilo Kino has written a second novel - another debut of sorts. The Porangi Boy won the young Adult Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young… Audio

It's possible that artist Rachel Smythe is New Zealand's most read author. After 8 years of writing and illustrating her online comic Lore Olympus, she can boast 6.5 million subscribers, and 1.7… Audio

From golden larches in Greenland to a collection of more than 300 oaks in Southwest France - people come to collect trees for all sorts of reasons.  Audio

Joumana Medlej joins Emile to talk about historical techniques for foraged plants, berries, and other earthly materials. Audio

Nalini Singh is a best-selling author of a very particular genre - paranormal romance - and she's now finding a creative reset in writing murder mysteries set in New Zealand.  Audio

Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly is the true story of a wartime surgeon from Cromwell who influenced the way hospitals and emergency rooms around the world treat their… Audio

This month marks 40 years since the release of Purple Rain, the 1984 American romantic rock musical film scored by and starring Prince in his acting debut. The semi-autobiographical story in the film… Audio

Professor Ian Hickie is a psychiatrist and co-director of health and policy at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. As one of Australia's leading authorities on mental health, Professor… Audio

In her new book, How the World Made the West, historian and archaeologist Josephine Quinn shakes the foundation of familiar ideas. Her target? Western Civilisation. Professor Quinn, who teaches… Audio

We speak to the to the author of a new pick-a-path, which is a book where you become the hero. You get to the end of a chapter and you're given a choice of where to go next. The book which has just… Audio

John Connell was an investigative journalist, documentary maker and author of multiple bestsellers when the creative well ran dry.  Audio

The little-known story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced the CIA and shaped the foundation of America's war on drugs has been told in the new book by best-selling author… Audio

Jenny Rockwell's debut poetry collection follows her personal growth from growing up in a church community to embracing queer joy. Audio

Ta rē Moriori, the indigenous language of Rekohu A.K.A the Chatham Islands is having a revival. Author Kate Preece realised that her husband didn't know how to 10 in the language of his karāpuna. She… Audio