Books

Anna Sale started talking about hard things by accident but now she's made a career out of helping people do it. The Death, Sex and Money podcast host shares some advice from her new book Let's Talk… Audio

Reviewer Lisa Glass looks at three books with the theme of someone faking their story. She talks about The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz , All My Colours by David Quantick and Fake Accounts by Lauren… Audio

Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog Books reviews North & South: a tale of two hemispheres by Sandra Morris, published by Walker Books. Audio

Many tales have been told of the fight over Berlin and rest of Germany after the fall of the Nazis at the end of World War 2. The allied forces of Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet… Audio

Mary Fawcett from Schrödinger's Books in Petone reviews The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas, published by Penguin Random. Audio

Writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit's latest is Recollections of My Non-Existence, a memoir that describes being a 19-year-old in San Francisco - where she started to forge her voice as a… Video, Audio

In 2013, journalist Jessica Bruder hit the road to document the growing subculture of Americans who have given up traditional housing to move into 'wheel estate' — many because of economic or personal… Audio

Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books reviews Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing, published by Picador. Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell, published by Penguin Random House NZ . Audio

We've all been there. The frying pan's on the stove and the baby's crying and there's a knock on the door from someone holding a clip board. Kathryn speaks with market research interviewer Trish… Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Still Life by Sarah Winman, published by HarperCollins. Audio

Murray Williams reviews Tree Sense: Ways of Thinking About Trees edited by Susette Goldsmith, published by Massey University Press. Audio

The intense bullying of a young boy by schoolmates over his love of My Little Pony motivated expat Kiwi Rob McDonald to write his award winning book The Nancys that took out last year's Ngaio Marsh… Audio

Author Catherine Clarke's new book, The Only Living Lady Parachutist, tells the story of mysterious daredevil Lillian, an unmarried mother of two who risked her life for fame and fortune. Catherine is… Audio

Founded by Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria sat at an important junction of the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains. And then it vanished. Alexandria, the new book by Dr Edmund… Audio

The beloved stars of The Casketeers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene, show how the traditions of tikanga shape their lives while juggling five sons, three businesses, and a television show in their new book… Audio

Professor Alan Merry is a world leading anaesthetist, and deep thinker about safe surgery on a macro and micro level. Professor Merry says that while New Zealand's health system is pretty safe, it… Audio

Louise O'Brien reviews Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie, published by Penguin Random House. Audio