Books

Melanie O'Loughlin reviews A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet, published by W.W. Norton & Company. Audio

Margaret Mills has just published her first novel at the age of 91, based on the life of Kitty Kirk. Kitty was born in Ireland in 1855 and shipped with her mother to the Protestant settlement of… Audio

Associate Professor Geoff Willmott, MacDiarmid Institute Deputy Director for Commercialisation and Industry Engagement, and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland gives us his… Audio

Kiran Dass reviews The Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, published by Faber. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Prophets by Robert Jones Jnr, published by Quercus. Audio

Finalists for the country's top book prizes are out this morning.

Sixteen works have made it on to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist list for fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction and… Audio

Stella Chrysostomou of VOLUME Books reviews Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley. Published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Holly Walker reviews Tranquility and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan, published by Victoria University Press. Audio

Briar Lawry, Unity Books, reviews Bestiary by K-Ming Chang. Published by Harvill Secker. Audio

Murray Williams reviews An Exquisite Legacy: The life and work of New Zealand naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs. This book is published by Potton & Burton. Audio

"Taking Pagoda Mountain (by strategy) romps through sex in a pagoda, people-smuggling in a Buddha statue, disguises, Led Zeppelin, Denis Glover’s grandson, a racist talent show, corrupt Shanghai…

Robert Kelly celebrates the legacy of romantic poet John Keats  who passed on this day 200 years ago in the teeth of another pandemic.  Audio

Two NgÄi Tahu cousins from Otago are behind the Reo Pēpi bilingual board books - writing and illustrating them. Kitty Brown talks to Kathryn about how she and her whanaunga Kirsten Parkinson came up… Audio

David Hill reviews A Sky Full Of Stars by Dani Atkins, published by Head of Zeus. Audio

Laura Caygill reviews Women of a Certain Rage edited by Liz Byrski, published by Fremantle Press. Audio

A frantic rewrite was required during the lockdown last year by novellist Janna Ruth, who'd set her novel Time to remember in Christchurch throughout 2020. The book's characters are mainly preoccupied… Audio

Imagine if you could disinvent things that really annoy you, things that also harm the planet. The central character in Susanna Gendall's debut novel The Disinvent Movement endeavours to do just that… Audio

Jane Westaway reviews The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey, published by Allen & Unwin. Audio