Books & Authors

The last time Christine Leunens joined Nine to Noon it was from LA, just hours ahead of the Oscars, where Taika Waititi would win Best Adapted Screenplay for JoJo Rabbit. It was adapted, of course… Audio

Reviewer Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about Joan Didion's non-fiction collection, Political Fictions. Audio

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins is a well-known design writer and his landmark book At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design was the Montana Book Awards Non-Fiction Winner in 2004. He was a co-author of The… Audio

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop Dunedin reviews This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by Andrew Doig, published by Bloomsbury. Bronwyn says: It's a fascinating history of how and why we've… Audio

Sometimes we do need to look back and examine the pain of the past, says best-selling author Daniel Pink. Audio

Sally Wenley reviews Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Christchurch barber Mataio (Matt) Brown wrote She is Not Your Rehab with his wife Sarah. They discuss the book and the global anti-violence movement it has spawned at 2021 WORD Christchurch. Audio

The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Otepoti Dunedin based writer Alan Roddick. It's the octogenarian's third collection… Audio

Aotearoa's latest literary sleuth, D.I. Nyree Bradshaw is faced by a mystifying and culturally challenging case in Catherine Lea's thriller The Water's Dead. The DI and her team are in a race against… Audio

Almost half the world will go through menopause. Yet it remains criminally underdiscussed. Niki Bezzant joins us to discuss her new book, This Changes Everything, which has been billed as a… Audio

Between panic buying and violent protests, the global pandemic has highlighted some of humankind's worst behaviours. But Dutch writer and historian Rutger Bregman insists that despite being painted as… Audio

Chris Kraus' upcoming novel The Four Spent the Day Together tells the story of a violent methamphetamine murder involving four teenagers on the Iron Range of Minnesota. Best-known for the… Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews The Islands by Emily Brugman, published by Allen & Unwin. Audio

Science journalist Catherine Price says fun is essential for health, resilience and productivity and explains how to have more of it ! Audio

RNZ producer and onetime bookseller Robert Kelly and our regular book quizmaster is away, so today Jesse will have a few books to talk about and you have to guess what they have in common to win a… Audio

Feilding High School English teacher Philip Jeffreys tells Jesse about writing a memoir to inspire his students.  Audio

Ravenscar House Museum holds an extraordinary, previously private art collection. The new building has been gifted to Christchurch by art collectors Susan Wakefield and her late husband Jim. The art… Audio, Gallery

Claire Mabey shares her summer reading highlights: Audio

Leah McFall reviews This Changes Everything by Niki Bezzant, published by Penguin Random House NZ Audio

Ruby Brunton reviews To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, published by Macmillan Audio