Books & Authors

Writer and feminist Soraya Chemaly says women and girls are too often taught to suppress their anger, but not anymore. She says galvanizing that anger can lead to social and political change.  Audio

Award-winning columnist Leah McFall has been writing a back-page column for Sunday for the past two years, answering such enduring questions as "how do you react when a sex shop opens next to your… Audio

Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Human Relations and Other Difficulties by Mary-Kay Wilmers, which is published by Profile Books. Audio

Writing a book is simply something a sitcom actress must do, according to actor and comedian Ellie Kemper. She is the star of the Netflix series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and a fan favourite of… Video, Audio

We have an appalling, and ever growing suicide rate in New Zealand. Developmental psychologist and science writer Jesse Bering tries to make sense of the epidemic and why humans do this to themselves.

Chef Nadia Lim had a bit of a juggle when releasing her latest book, her eighth. Her second son, River, arrived earlier than scheduled. The book is Fresh Start Feel Good and an extension of her My… Audio

Kate De Goldi joins Kim to discuss the children's books that have been branded racist or sexist since they were first published, and have become controversial in the modern day - among the authors are… Audio

Author, scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor Tim Flannery has turned his attention to Europe in his latest book, Europe: A Natural History. It's a story of huge animals, shifting… Audio

New Zealand journalist and award-winning author Maurice Shadbolt believed New Zealanders should tell their own stories - and now his story is being told in Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice… Audio

In the wild 1970s, Robin Green was the only woman writing for Rolling Stone magazine and she has recently published a funny, candid, tell-all memoir - The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead… Audio

Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She works on cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art. Born in Galway in 1981… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Ko Taranaki Te Maunga by Rachel Buchanan, which is published by Bridget Williams Books Texts. "In 1881, 1500 colonial troops violently invaded the village of… Audio

Literary heavyweight, William Boyd has been creating vivid characters and setting them off on amazing adventures for almost four decades. His is the author of more than a dozen novels, several… Audio

David Hill reviews Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, which is published by Simon & Schuster UK. Audio

For the 12 year old in all of us, and with his two young sons in mind, New Zealand comedian and actor, Rhys Darby has penned his first book for children, 'The Top Secret Undercover Notes of Buttons… Audio

Stella Chrysostomou from Volume Bookstore in Nelson reviews Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, which is published by Text Publishing. Audio

A life-long love of boats and the sea turned into the perfect way for British journalist Jonathan Gornall to express his overwhelming love for his daughter Phoebe, who has given him a second chance at… Audio

Private prisons are always worse than public ones because they're under constant pressure to cut costs, says investigative journalist Shane Bauer who went undercover in a private US prison as a… Audio