Books

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, published by Pan Macmillan. Audio

Lisa Glass reviews three dystopian reads. Audio

David Hill reviews What Stars are Made Of by Sarah Allen, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Holly Walker reviews What Sort of Man by Breton Dukes, published by Victoria University Press. Audio

Superman and his descendants launched a fascination with technological superism that continues today. Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University in Wales and has recently… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry, published by Faber. Follow-up to the multi-award-winning Days Without End, this novel is on a par with that. Narrated by… Audio

Laura Caygill reviews Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth, published by HarperCollins. A hilarious read about friendship, motherhood, relationships and social media. Raucous and painfully relatable. Audio

Dr Seuss as you've never heard him read before. Audio

Lisa Finucane reviews The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave (pen-name for Lois Cox & Hilary Lapsley), published by Town Belt Press. Audio

A new online campaign was launched over Easter - playwright Victor Rodger explains what Blokes vs Books is all about. Audio

Book critic Pip Adam's looks at how repetition works in three books and in poetry, and reviews a short story.  Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews One of Them by Michael Cashman, published by Bloomsbury. Audio

Historian Timothy Brook in The Great State: China and the World says China has been engaged in a debate how it relates to other nations for centuries.

One of China's most controversial authors forgoes political satire to write about his family's struggles during the Cultural Revolution.

It was a conversation with his wife over ham and cheese toasties that kicked off Tales from the Bunker - Australian writer Trent Dalton's weekly column about the power of the human spirit in these… Audio

The acclaimed travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was due to arrive in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers' Festival next month. He's been here before, travelling around the North and South… Audio

Kiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews Halibut on the Moon by David Vann, published by Text. Shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Audio

Mystery crime-writer and forensic anthropologist Dr Kathy Reichs speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her double-life as a scientist and best-selling author. Kathy's first novel Déjà Dead was a New York… Audio