Books & Authors

A research fellow at the University of Sydney has looked into the often invisible histories of transgender soldiers and the cross-dressing women who went to war.  Audio

Louise O'Brien from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa reviews One Single Thing by Tina Clough. This book is published by Lightpool Publishing. Audio

We live in an age of anxiety with rates of depression skyrocketing all over the world. But there may be an evolutionary purpose for all this suffering says Dr Randolph Nesse.  Audio

Chris Tse reviews Other by Christchurch poet Ruth Hanover. Audio

Privacy issues aren't just a feature of the digital age; a new book by labour historian, Jared Davidson, hows how pervasive military censorship was in the wartime years from 1914 to 1920. Dead… Audio

What is burnout and what does the patriachy have to do with the way women experience it? Audio

Celebrated Italophile Frances and her husband, Ed eat and drink their way through regional Italy from Friuli to Sicily. They seek out the cultural and historic gems not found in traditional… Audio

Elizabeth Calder emigrated from England to NZ with her family in 1949 and returned in 1958 after graduating with a BA in English literature from the University of Canterbury. This week she was awarded… Audio

Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review and the author of Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, which was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for… Audio

Former refugee Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007) was a New York Times Editor's Choice… Audio

English writer Oobah Butler shot to infamy last year after he managed to turn the garden shed he lived in into TripAdvisor's top-rated London restaurant – by creating a fake website and getting his… Video, Audio

An in-depth look at the life and work of Billy T James - the musician, entertainer and ground breaking comedian. We talk about his career and legacy with his biographer Matt Elliott. Audio, Gallery

Almost exactly 100 years ago, New Zealand troops began to create one of the most significant pieces of large-scale wartime art: the Bulford Kiwi. Audio

Doug Gold is the founder of radio stations More FM and The Breeze, but he's now turned his considerable talents to writing. Audio

Gina Rogers reviews The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris - a new novel from the author of Chocolat. Audio

Before the mass shooting in Christchurch, before Parkland and Sandy Hook and the atrocity in Norway, there was Columbine. Audio

Justin Gregory opens the books on book publishing in New Zealand to find out if anyone's making any money. Audio