Author Interview

In 2001, the Norwegian freighter Tampa - crammed with more than 400 asylum-seekers rescued from a sinking fishing boat - was turned away from Australia. Abbas Nazari, aged seven, was onboard.  Audio

Michael Schur is an American television writer and producer whose list of impressive credits include creating the award-winning fantasy comedy show The Good Place. Set in the afterlife, the show deals… Video, Audio

We have been told wrong: inequality is not the price of civilisation, says archaeologist David Wengrow. Many long held assumptions about how humans developed as a species are blown apart by Wengrow… Audio

From "alternative facts" to the most outlandish fringe conspiracy theories - we're now living in the age of disinformation. We all became familiar with Russian groups using Facebook to spread fake… Audio

Larry Miller is the head of the Michael Jordan brand for Nike. But during his steady corporate rise, colleagues had no idea that as a teenager he'd shot and killed a man and served time in jail. When… Audio

Jo Morgan is a mountaineer, avid motorcyclist, adventurer, trader, philanthropist, grandmother, and now author. She's written a memoir about her adventure-filled and unconventional life, which begins… Audio, Gallery

Ian Rankin, the creator of Inspector Rebus, talks live from Edinburgh with New Zealand crime writer Vanda Symon at Word Christchurch 2021. Audio

What if Dr Frankenstein's monster had been cast away in a fjord in Aotearoa's deep south? This is the proposition explored by Vincent O'Sullivan in Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques, and other stories out next… Audio

We imitate other people's behaviour but we also subconsciously imitate what they desire, says entrepreneur Luke Burgis. In the new book Wanting, he argues that by "desiring differently" we can become… Audio

"Davos Man: a member of the global billionaire class that controls the majority of the world's wealth". In his new book, New York Times global economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman contends that… Audio

As a teenager, Anna Qu worked in a sweatshop snipping loose threads from garments until her hands blistered and bled. Anna writes about her quest to understand her mother and generations of Chinese… Audio

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

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

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