Books

We're honoured to have our regular book critic, Pip Adam in. Today Pip is talking about the 'monstrous feminine' - an idea that challenges the idea of women as victims.  Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews Eye of the Songbird by Michael Munro, which is published by Tita Publishing. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews American By Day by Derek B. Miller, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

A project to promote literacy and language in Palau has received a US Pacific youth grant to publish and distribute a colourful children's book written in Palauan with english subtitles. Audio

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb from the University Book Shop, Otago, reviews Tangerine by Christine Mangan, published by Little, Brown. Audio

Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Viv Albertine's "To Throw Away Unopened", published by Faber. Audio

Diana Wichtel has won this year's Ockham book award for non-fiction. In her book Driving to Treblinka - A Long Search for a Lost Father the award-winning journalist writes of her journey to find her… Audio

Reviewed by Louise O'Brien, published by VUP. Audio

Women have taken out all but one of the county's top literary prizes at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Writers, book lovers and publishers filled up the Aotea Centre in Auckland last night to… Audio

Reviewed by Harry Broad, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Uzodinma Iweala is an award winning writer, film maker, editor and medical doctor whose long awaited second novel, Speak No Evil, has just been published. He grew up in Nigeria and the United States… Audio

Reviewed by Sonja DeFriez, published by Simon & Schuster. Audio

The strained relationship between two sisters is explored in Swedish-Kiwi writer Linda Olsson's fifth novel, A Sister In My House. Cynthia Morahan reads from the book. Set in Spain, but moving between… Audio

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio

Melanie O'Loughlin from Unity Books reviews Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday published by Granta. Audio

Jane Westaway reviews Staying: A Memoir by Jessie Cole, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Rae McGregor reviews A Sister in My House by Linda Olsson, published by Penguin. Audio