Books & Authors

Naomi Alderman is a British author whose fourth novel The Power was a New York Times best seller. Made into a Netflix series released last year, Alderman's science-fiction thriller tells the story of… Audio

The same families have been visiting Treasure Island Caravan Park in Patua, Northland, for decades. During that time the little kids that zoomed around the camp ground have grown up to become big kids… Audio

Jordan Tricklebank is the brains behind the Maori Literature Blog Instagram page. The page celebrates Aotearoa's rich history of Maori writers by sharing and reviewing both new and classic works… Audio

Last year, for the first time in the 21-year history of the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, all three categories were won by women. Lee Murray picked up the fiction award, the… Audio

As a psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google, Katherine Morgan Schafler has worked with hundreds of self-confessed perfectionists.

In her book The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing… Audio

Two books by Waikato writer Catherine Chidgey have been nominated for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.

It's the world's most valuable annual prize for a work of fiction published in English, with a… Audio

The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal is inspired by the true story of Chiune Sugihara and the thousands of people, including Linda herself, who owe him their lives.  Audio

Growing up on a rural Australian farm didn't prepare Kristy McGregor for the isolation she'd experience when she made the move to a dairy and beef farm in Horowhenua with her husband in 2014.  Audio

The heroine of author Ainslie Hogarth's latest book, Normal Women, is desperate to break free from a suffocating, conventional, upper-middle-class life. In her bid for freedom, Dani, stumbles stumbles… Audio

Retired U.S Navy Captain transformed one of the lowest-ranked US submarine crews into the best in the fleet. Audio

In 1973, Tony Simpson - author, historian, and public servant - travelled overseas on what turned out to be an OE like no other.  Audio

Anna Thomas caught up with poet and artist Terry Fitzgibbon about his new book 'Salt: Coastal Connections' published by White Cloud Books. The book features stunning images from award winning… Audio

A photo essay about Aotearoa's most inland surfboard shaper is the kind of content that "falls into the lap" of Laura Williamson, editor of the Southern Lakes print journal 1964. The quarterly… Audio

Poet and literature critic, Kate Camp talks with Kim Hill about Katherine Mansfield – perhaps New Zealand’s most famous literary daughter. Camp won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of… Audio

Siân Davey is a photographer with a background in fine art and social policy. Her book ‘Looking for Alice’, which… Audio

Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel ‘The Handmaid's Tale’ was, in 2017, enjoying a resurgence of interest. The… Audio

Kim Hill interviews historian and writer Dr Michael King at the time of the release of his acclaimed book ‘The Penguin History of New Zealand’, in 2003, the year before King's death. The author talks… Audio

The author of 10 novels, Colm Tóibín speaks with Kim Hill in 2022 about his 2021 Folio Prize winning book ‘The Magician’, a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Mann. Tóibín’s novels ‘The… Audio