Books
Book Critic - Pip Adam
Today Pip reviews, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom, Things I Learnt at Art School by Megan Dunn and ANTISTATIC an exhibition by Anna… Audio
Book review - This Life by Quntos KunQuest
Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books reviews This Life by Quntos KunQuest, published by Agate. Audio
Whitcoulls Top 100 list in 2021 sees new writers make it in
This year's Whitcoulls Top 100 list features a new number one and 13 books from New Zealand. Whitcoull's Book Manager Joan Mackenzie talks to Jesse about who's in and who's out in 2021! Audio
Book review - The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
Laura Caygill reviews The Stranding by Kate Sawyer, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand. Audio
Book review - Enough Horizon: The life and work of Blanche Baug
Paul Diamond reviews Enough Horizon: The life and work of Blanche Baughan by Carol Markwell, published by Cuba Press. Audio
Book review - Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
Quentin Johnson reviews Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand. Audio
Book Critic: Catherine Ross
Today librarian at Diocesan School for girls has some great recommendations for books to young people on their school holidays occupied. The titles today are, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai… Audio
Book review - Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supremacy
David Hill reviews Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supremacy by Ron Palenski, published by Upstart Press. Audio
Book review: Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
Kiran Dass reviews Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann, published by Text Publishing. Audio
Unity Books review: We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
Toyah Webb from Unity books in Auckland reviews We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida, published by Atlantic Books Audio
Book review - Gaps in the Light by Iona Winter
Michelle Rahurahu Scott reviews Gaps in the Light by Iona Winter, published by Ad Hoc Fiction. Audio
Book review: Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin reviews Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey, published by HarperCollins. Audio
Book Critic Claire Mabey
Today Claire Mabey looks at A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Sanders, Long Players: Writers on the Album that Shaped Them, by Tom Gatti and Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones. Audio
Book review When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham
Louise O'Brien reviews When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand. Audio
Identifying opportunities to play and have fun
How often have you looked around where you live to identify new ways have fun. Alex Bonham has just written a book Play and the City - How to create places and spaces to help us thrive. Audio
Book review: LIT Stories from HOME
Lisa Finucane reviews LIT Stories from Aotearoa edited by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod, published by One Tree House. Audio
Book review: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Leah McFall reviews Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, published by HarperCollins. Sorrow and Bliss is the second novel by ex-pat Kiwi, Meg Mason, compared to Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joan Didion… Audio
Book review: The Vixen by Francine Prose
Phil Vine reviews The Vixen by Francine Prose, published by HarperCollins. Audio
Mimi Kwa: how I found forgiveness for my father after he sued me
Melbourne journalist Mimi Kwa seemed to be living her best life - "in the suburbs, gorgeous kids... a cavoodle dog and a Burmese cat" - when she was sideswiped by her own father deciding to sue her in… Audio
Book review: Stranger Care by Sarah Sentilles
Holly Walker reviews Stranger Care by Sarah Sentilles published by Text Publishing. Audio
