Books & Authors

We can never follow magnetic fields like birds and sea turtles do to find their way to a destination. We can't see the infrared radiation of a person or predator, like rattlesnakes do, or feel the air… Audio

Mountaineer Peter Hillary has teamed up with artist Ant Sang and the result is 4 Yaks and a Yeti - a book that see a young Nepalese boy undertake a perilous journey to find the mythical palace… Audio

Award-winning historian Jock Phillips looks at the history of Aotearoa through a fresh lens with his new book The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects. From the Puketoi kete to POLY1 personal… Audio

Today on The Panel Wallace and panellists James Elliot and Victoria MacLennan discuss the new GDP data set to be announced on Thursday and lawyer and Outdoors and Freedom Party co-leader Sue Grey… Audio

Writer and artist Terry Moyle's new book, New Zealand at the Beach is a trip down memory lane, with people reflecting on their summers of fun times and Kiwi golden weather. It is full of illustrations… Audio, Gallery

Laura Caygill reviews The Accidental Duchess by Emma Manners the Duchess of Rutland, published by Pan MacMillan Audio

Briton Danielle Brown is a double Paralympic gold-medalist and five-time world champion in archery. She was also the first disabled athlete to represent England in an able-bodied category at the… Audio

Today on The Panel Wallace and panellists Stephen Jacobi and Cas Carter discuss the Chief Ombudsman's investigation into the Managed Isolation Allocation System, National's newest MP Tama Potaka… Audio

Phil Vine reviews Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Historical novelist, playwright, and author of the best-selling Burning Chambers series and the Languedoc Trilogy, Kate Mosse is also a champion of women in literature. She's the founder director of… Audio

Louise Ward of Wardinis Bookshop in Havelock North reviews The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll, published by Simon & Schuster. Audio

Urvashi Roe is a Great British Bake-off participant who's taken a life-time of snacking delicious food cooked by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and turned it into a book called Biting Biting.  Audio

Today on Bookmarks, an industrial designer who has made a name for herself globally. Lucy Tupu celebrates her Samoan and New Zealand roots with Pacific designs in her New York City based design… Audio

British music journalist Jude Rogers explores music as a portal to "new places and new feelings or places to put feelings" in her new book The Sound of Being Human. Video, Audio

Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter and his confidante during 20 years of fascist rule. She acted as envoy to both Germany and Britain, helping steer Italy to join forces with Hitler. UK… Audio

Mellissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book edited by Pandora Sykes, published by Bloomsbury In this love letter to reading, curated by… Audio

American author Celeste Ng is best known for her novel Little Fires Everywhere, a family drama set in Celeste's own hometown; the upscale suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio. bvShe now has a new book, Our… Audio