Books

RNZ producer and onetime bookseller Robert Kelly presents his weekly quiz. Audio

Night time for Waitakere-based author Annette Lees, is magical and beguiling. It transforms the senses and the landscape. But most of us miss out on it most the time. It's when the nocturnal world… Audio

Today's theme for Catherine Ross' book review is 'Librarian Picks'. That's quite fitting as she is a librarian at Auckland's Diocesan School for Girls. Audio

Lisa Finucane reviews three of her favourite books from last year: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King published by Allen and Unwin; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro published by Penguin Random House… Audio

Roland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year… Audio

David Hill reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Front Line by Glyn Harper published by Massey Press, The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither published by Quentin Wilson Publishing and… Audio

The US prison system amounts to a modern-day form of slavery based on lies about the underclass it is exploiting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says. Audio

Liam McIlvanney is one of the most distinguished British crime fiction writers around these days. He also happens to be a Scotsman who lives in Dunedin.After his first novel, All the Colours of the… Audio

Neil Holdom was once a local newspaper editor, then an executive at an energy company before he "accidentally" became mayor. He joins us to share how he got there, while sharing some of his favourite… Audio

Chinese contrarian artist Ai Weiwei writes a memoir that is as much about his dissident-poet father and his hopes for his son, as it about himself. Reviewed by Jeremy Rees.

This Summer we're travelling around the country and speaking with mayors as a part of our 'Bookmarks' segment. Today's guest is Clutha District Mayor Bryan Cadogan. Prior to being a Mayor most of his… Audio

Dan Slevin salutes a book surveying the late film festival director’s erudite and gracious programme notes and introductions and pays tribute to a life dedicated to bringing audiences to great movies.

Today's Bookmarks guest is Mayor Tim Cadogan of Central Otago. Tim became Mayor in 2016 but was formally a lawyer, specialising in criminal and family work. Audio

Dr Grant Morris on how to choose a summer holiday history reading list and some specific recommendations. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, published by Penguin Random House Audio

Margaret Wilson is a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato, and Deputy Commissioner of the Waikato District Health Board and is… Audio