Books & Authors

Former NHS doctor and best-selling author Adam Kay is returning to New Zealand with his show This Is Going to Hurt Live.  Audio

Dr Laura Jean McKay is the first New Zealand-based author to win one of the world's top science fiction prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for her novel The Animals in That Country. Audio

Laila Lalami is the author of five books, and her latest work, The Dream Hotel is a gripping speculative mystery about the seductive dangers of the technologies that are supposed to make our lives… Audio

Roger Christensen of Little Unity Books Auckland reviews Little Bones by Sandy Bigna published by University of Queensland Press Audio

Alexander Clapp talks about how his pursuit to understand the waste trade led him on a globetrotting journey Audio

Drag performer, author, illustrator and cat enthusiast  Queen Olivia III (aka Conrad Johnston) joins Emile Donovan to share her new, highly technical guide to cat coexistence, The Cat Operator's… Audio

When you're on the radio people often recognise your voice, but don't know your name or face. Would you recognise Lisa Owen, Ingrid Hipkiss or Todd Zaner in the grocery queue, but when they open their… Audio

After suffering two strokes in 2020, Pauline lives each day beset by chronic pain, with her best relief being music. Audio

There's a dirty secret in economics says Danish writer Emma Holten. Audio

Catherine Ross, Director of Library at Auckland Grammar School has a list of books on the theme of animals. Audio

Laura Caygill reviews The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr published by Pan Macmillan; A charmingly wry tale of a struggling family in an Irish fishing town in the 70s and 80s. Audio

Sally Burton, a celebrated artist, has always been intrigued by Katherine Mansfield's 'bold recklessness'. Her fascination with Mansfield began at Nelson Girls' College. Video

We feature father-daughter writing duo CK Stead (on the Ockham shortlist for poetry) and Charlotte Grimshaw, both winners of the Mansfield Menton Fellowship (Karl in 1972, Charlotte in 2024). Video

Charlotte's show Mansfield in Her Own Words brings together some of our most talented musicians. Yates chooses poems for composers and performers Brooke Singer and William Ricketts. Video

Possibly Katherine Mansfield's biggest fan outside academia and the literary world, Trysh Murphy-Dally was introduced to Katherine Mansfield by her mum as a young girl. Video

A smuggled copy of Katherine Mansfield’s Letters, published in 1925, was given to Odette in prison. She was Britain’s most decorated World War II spy. Her NZ relatives tell the story. Video