Books
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Janet Hunt: How to Mend a Kea
Expert natural history writer Janet Hunt has written extensively about our forests, wetlands, sanctuaries and protecting our native wildlife. Janet tells Kathryn Ryan about her latest book How to Mend… Audio, Gallery
Muhammad Ali: The People's Champion
Cassius Clay exploded onto the boxing scene as the charismatic and controversial fighter known as The Louisville Lip in 1960 he went on, as Muhammad Ali, to become the most famous man in the world. Video, Audio
Book critic Catherine Robertson
It's National Bookshop day this Saturday 28th October - and our book critic Catherine Robertson pays tribute to her favourite bookshops. Audio
Book review "City of Crows" by Chris Womersley
Susanna Andrew reviews City of Crows by Chris Womersley, published by Pan Macmillan Australia. Audio
Toni Bruce on National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month, where writers sign up to write 50,000 words over the 30 days in November, a goal reached by more than 34, 000 writers internationally last year (though… Audio
Charity giving away books
Doug Van Belle is passionate about getting books into the hands of children and their carers. He is part of a literacy programme called Fund a Book NZ, and its aim is to raise funds to support the… Audio
New Gen artist Hera Lindsay Bird
High profile New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird has been named as a 2017 Arts Foundation New Generation Artist, receiving $25,000 along with it. Audio
Book review: Democracy and Its Crisis
Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Democracy and Its Crisis by AC Grayling, published by Oneworld. Audio
Book review - Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman,
Jonathan Mosen reviews Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman, published by Text Publishing. Audio
'We live in a strange time' - Booker winner
American author George Saunders has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel.
Book review - A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
Harry Broad reviews 'A River Rules My Life' by Mona Anderson, published by HarperCollins NZ. Audio
Book review - "Sour Heart" by Jenny Zhang
Jenna Todd from time out bookstore reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, published by Bloomsbury. Audio
Florenz Maxwell: Bermuda's theatre boycott heroine
Florenz Maxwell is a Bermudian author and activist who was part of the underground group that successfully ended segregation through a series of theatre boycotts in 1959. She's just published a young… Audio
Book review - "The Inner Life of Animals" by Peter Wohlleben
Niki Ward from Ekor Bookshop reviews The Inner Life of Animals - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio
Niall Ferguson: contrarian historian
Networks and hierarchies have together shaped society and we need to balance out the tension between them, historian Niall Ferguson says in his new book. Audio
New Zealand’s airmen in the Great War
Massey University historian Adam Claasen has written an extraordinary book telling the previously untold story of New Zealand's Great War airmen. While much has been written about our Kiwi soldiers at… Audio, Gallery
Michael Horton: Sir John Logan Campbell in his own words
The former proprietor of the NZ Herald, Michael Horton, collaborated with history professor Russell Stone from the University of Auckland, to tell the story of Sir John Logan Campbell, in Sir John's… Audio, Gallery