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Gail Pittaway reviews The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse published by Macmillan Audio

Kiran Dass reviews Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein published by HarperCollins Audio

Resilience expert Dr Lucy Hone has personal and academic experience with devastating grief. Despite all her training and time working with people dealing with loss, nothing prepared her for the sudden… Audio

"Heartbreaking" is the word Caitlin Moran found herself repeating while researching her latest book What About Men? After ten years "trying to sort out the women" best-selling UK writer Caitlin Moran… Audio

Bilingual storyteller and children's book author Moira Wairama specialises in sharing Maori creation stories for kids. Her latest book "Nanny Jo and the Wild Mokopuna" celebrates grandmothers while… Audio

Hira Nathan takes that Kiwi can-do attitude into everything he does, from doing up houses, working as a sparky, to his latest venture - creating the worlds first bilingual gratitude journal with te ao… Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs published by Penguin Random House Audio

Author Emily Perkins has been brewing the concept of her new novel for a long time. And after many, many drafts, Lioness finally hit the shelves last week. It's her first new release in a decade, and… Audio

Jenna Todd from Time Out Books reviews In Memoriam by Alice Winn published by Penguin Audio

Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Audio

Catriona Ferguson reviews Traced by Catherine Jinks, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Hannah Pick-Goslar knew Anne Frank as the girl next door and co-conspirator in the pranks they pulled on the adults before the war. The two would both end up in the same concentration camp. Hannah… Audio

If you're in Auckland, you may have walked past one of the worlds most valuable and important books without realising. A rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio lives in a glass case in the public… Audio

Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week, he's examining the role dystopian novels play in politics. The conservative… Audio

Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her family on a three-year voyage around the world. Three years turned into a decade, with little formal schooling and many tensions between Heywood and… Audio

Harry Broad reviews It Doesn't Take a War: A Life Forever Changed by the Hyde Railway Crash written and published by Elizabeth Coleman. Audio