Books

It's time for Lately Book Club where we go exploring in the world of literature and invite you to come along. A new exhibition has just opened in the special collections Library at the University of… Audio, Gallery

Quentin Johnson reviews The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd, published by Hachette NZ. Audio

Anahera Gildea reviews Blakwork by Alison Whittaker, published by Magabala Books. Alison Whittaker will speak at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington on 14 March. Audio

New Zealand is hosting the World Science Fiction Convention later this year. This is a major event for fans of traditional sci-fi, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction and all the other sub-genres of… Audio

It's been a closely guarded secret, but the anonymous donor behind the country's richest literary prize is anonymous no longer. Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Chernobyl and Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of WWII by Serhii Plokhy, both published by Penguin. Ukrainian author Serhii Plokhy will… Audio

Kiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews Actress by Anne Enright, which is published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

Leilani Tamu reviews The Adventures of Tupaia by Courtney Sina Meredith and Mat Tait, published by Allen & Unwin. Audio

It's time for our Tuesday book slot and this week Robert Kelly is having another go at inventing a new genre - Vampire fiction! Audio

Harry Broad reviews The General and the Nightingale: Dan Davin's War Stories by Dan Davin, edited by Janet Wilson. Published by Otago University Press. Audio

Jonathan West reviews The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony by Benjamin Kingsbury. This book is published by Bridget Williams Books. Audio

When New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa lost its funding, publisher Peppercorn Press started looking at its options. Audio

Holly Walker reviews The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel by Louisa Luna, published by Text. Audio

Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma is the first author in Booker Prize history to be nominated for their first and second book. The second, 'An Orchestra of Minorities' demonstrates an act of masterful… Audio

Beloved Unity Books in Auckland's High Street has made it to the shortlist of three to be in the running for International Bookstore of the Year 2020.  Owner operator, Jo McColl talks to Jesse about… Audio