Books & Authors

Quentin Johnson reviews The Trackers by Charles Frazier published by HarperCollins Audio

It's not just in the boardroom where women are paid less, penalised for having children and considered less capable of generating big bucks. "The most competitive FIFA Women's World Cup we've ever… Audio

Carole Beu from the Women's Bookshop reviews Dice by Claire Baylis published by Allen and Unwin Audio

Rachel Louise Snyder survived a harrowing childhood in an cruel, evangelical family to become a globally recognised journalist and author. She tells her story to Kathryn Ryan. Audio

From the moment Film Director Christopher Nolan read a Pulitzer Prize winning biography about the leader of the Manhattan Project laboratory, he wanted to tell his story. Now Oppenheimer is exceeding… Audio

Sally Wenley reviews The Spare Room by Andrea Bartz published by Penguin Random House Audio

Drawing on unpublished archival material and new reportage, author and journalist Walter Marsh's book, Young Rupert pieces together the paper trail giving us a glimpse of the Australian media… Audio

Shortly after the birth of her first child in 2001 French writer Marie Darrieussecq developed insomnia, and she's not been able to get a good night's sleep since. She's spent some of her many waking… Audio

Knock-offs are big business, worth $600 billion a year on the world market: anything from whiskey and bags to footwear and hair care products. In her book Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a… Audio

A retired academic from Port Chalmers was surprised to discover a copy of his memoir makes an appearance in the Barbie movie. John Egenes's book Man & Horse, The Long Ride Across America - about… Video, Audio

We're looking at how a range of emotions that children experience can be addressed through age appropriate books.  Audio

Aiden Aslin spent a harrowing six months as a Russian prisoner of war, and was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange in September last year. Audio

At 70, Joan MacDonald was overweight, had high blood pressure, painful arthritis and found it difficult to walk up a flight of stairs. Seven years later, she’s a bona fide fitness influencer with her… Audio

Genevieve Mora has moved past shame to publicly share her own story of anxiety, OCD and anorexia in the new book Bite Back. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee published by Text Publishing Audio

Sam Irby lives in the real world and writes for the ones created in Hollywood. She's a writer and supervising Producer for And Just Like That, the Sex and the City reboot and Shrill. Audio