Books

Author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton created a children's book phenomenon in 2011 with their book The 13-Storey Treehouse. Now they're up to The 104-Storey Treehouse, their eighth in the… Audio

Former All Black and Crusaders half-back Andy Ellis is just as comfortable in gumboots as he is in rugby boots. He's a landscape gardener who with his side-kick Danny Kamo has won gold at the… Audio, Gallery

Former White House stenographer Beck Dorey-Stein has written a behind-the-scenes memoir from inside the White House, under former US President Barack Obama. "From the Corner of the Oval Office - one… Audio

Melanie O'Loughlin from Unity Books reviews The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, published by One World. Audio

Stella Chrysostomou from Volume book shop reviews A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits, published by Faber. Audio

Emily Writes hopes her new and diverse collection of true parenting stories will unite people who have different ways of raising kids. The stories come from contributors to popular parenting site The… Audio

NZ writer Kirsty Gunn describes her new novel, Caroline's Bikini, as a comedy about the telling of a love story. Gunn's first novel, Rain, was published in 1994, and was made into a successful feature… Audio

Laura Caygill from Auckland libraries takes us through some of the out of print gems you can still find at your local library, from old cookbooks to classic New Zealand novels of the past and even a… Audio, Gallery

A new book examines China’s skewed gender imbalance with a surfeit of rural bachelors and a generation of “only daughters” entering the workforce and marrying age.

Harry Ricketts from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Books reviews Edgeland and other poems by David Eggleton, published by Otago University Press Audio