Books & Authors

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

Unionist Helen Kelly left a huge impact on New Zealand's political and industrial landscapes. Helen's biographer Rebecca Macfie speaks with Jo Malcolm about her life, times and legacy. Audio

Author Frances Cook's new book on financial independence, Your Money, Your Future, is billed as a "real-life handbook to finding freedom on any income". She joins the show to discuss the new book and… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson, published by HarperCollins. Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of… Audio

Gail Pittaway reviews The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Clementine Ford has been called an angry loudmouthed polemicist by her detractors, and a leading light of the feminist cause by her many fans.The Australian writer and broadcaster is well known for… Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews Renegades by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Auckland reviews Love Marriage by Monica Ali, published by Hachette. From the Booker shortlisted author of Brick Lane, a fascinating, and sometimes amusing… Audio

Sisters Nikki Perry and Kirsty Roby speak with Lynn Freeman about their joint-novel How to Marry Harry. Audio

Humanity is facing a crisis of mass distraction, says British writer Johann Hari, and we need a collective fight to get our attentional abilities back. Audio

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, activist, political scientist and essayist. She has published 19 books, her latest, The Island of Missing Trees, was shortlisted for the 2021… Audio