Books & Authors

Harlan Coben is an accidental novelist whose success is no accident. It comes from hard work, deep empathy and unreserved respect for the joy of reading.  Audio

Our expert today knows a thing or two about books - and he should too, seeing he has 1 million of them - yes you heard that right.  Audio

When Lauren Keenan (Te Ati Awa ki Taranaki) first started writing, she was told to set her stories overseas otherwise they wouldn't get published.  Audio

Over almost sixty years, Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra took hundreds of thousands of pictures of life in New Zealand. A new illustrated biography Ans Westra - A life in photography interrogates… Audio, Gallery

In a crucial year for India, millions of voters are going to the polls in the mammoth six-week election in the most populous country on earth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hoping to secure a rare… Audio

Promising a new kind of environmental journalism, Cape Town-based conservation writer Adam Welz's book The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown explores climate change from the… Audio

Nearly 85 years since the death of its founder, the Rātana movement still carries a significant amount of mana in Aotearoa's political and social spheres. But that is only one side to the story of… Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney published by Quercus Books. Audio

Phil Vine reviews Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein published by Granta. Audio

Many of us will know the difficulties of travelling and being understood in countries where we don't speak the language. Now imagine taking a great work of literature and translating that - without… Audio

Kiran Dass reviews Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson published by Fourth Estate. Audio

Ballerina-turned-author and comedian Sacha Jones on her book The Fatter Sex - looking at women's battles with diet, weight and body confidence. Audio

Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Ash by Louise Wallace published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio

A collection of letters written to and from iconic New Zealand painter Colin McCahon sheds light on a special relationship spanning four decades. McCahon met penpal Ron O'Reilly in 1938, when the pair… Audio

Grace Blakeley takes aim at capitalism in her latest book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom. In the book, Blakeley asserts that rather than failing… Audio

It's thirty years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, perpetrated by the Hutu-led government. British journalist Michela Wrong's book Do Not Disturb, The Story of a Political Murder… Audio