Books & Authors

Educator and author Lance King has worked with tens of thousands of students, both here and overseas, and has seen a lot of children who are struggling to achieve at school or are lacking in… Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, which is published by Penguin Random House. Booker Prize joint winner 2019. Audio

We all want a happy life, but maybe pursuing happiness is the wrong way to go about it. Meik Wiking suggests instead that we focus on creating great memories. Audio

Jack McDonald reviews Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori in the First World War by Monty Soutar. This book is published by Macmillan. Audio

So many aspects of Professor Robert Hassan's life revolve around digital media.  To understand the ever growing impact of media, he walked away from it and on to a container ship for 5 weeks of… Audio

Leah McFall reviews Inside Out by Demi Moore, which is published by HarperCollins. Audio

Reading and writing in the digital era is celebrated by Lani Wendt Young, who charts the increase in brown, Pacific and LGBTQ voices. More people then ever are reading what speaks directly to them. Audio

What is a children's book in 2019, what language do children and young adults communicate in and has it changed since the days of Beatrix potter? Wellington Author Michael Petherick has a new book out… Audio

Author Graeme Lay says it's misleading for people to accuse Captain James Cook as being an imperialist and a destroyer of cultures, when he was largely revered by Maori in New Zealand.  Audio

Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The American writer's debut book became the biggest… Video, Audio

Money is sometimes the only difference between eccentricity and madness, says Lady Anne Glenconner, who served as Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting for over 30 years. Now 87, Lady Anne has written a… Video, Audio

David Hill reviews On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux, which is published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Language is always evolving. We don't talk the way Shakespeare did, so it should come as no surprise that the most disruptive force of modern times, the internet, is changing communication. Video, Audio

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura and NZ Cricket have teamed up to get more primary and intermediate school-aged children reading this summer. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura CEO Jo Cribb explains. Audio

The traditional image of women in colonial New Zealand is all buttons and crinoline, but such images may belie the reality. A new book written by Dr Catherine Bishop has taken a close look at the role… Audio

Verb Festival, featuring the LitCrawl is on again in Wellington over four days from 6 - 10 November. A literary fest and feast for anyone who likes the written word, especially if it's a doing word… Audio

It's time for our book slot and RNZ producer Robert Kelly is back to try and invent another genre. Today we're looking at history and travel writing that uses an ocean as its main storytelling… Audio

Harry Ricketts from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa reviews R. A. K. Mason: Uncollected Poems, edited by Roger Hickin. Published by Cold Hub Press. Audio