Author Interview

Award-winning food writer Lucy Corry joins us this morning to talk about her new book and share a sumptuous roast chicken salad recipe from her new cookbook, Homecooked.  Audio

We talk to Dame Anne Salmond about a new book, Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation. Audio, Gallery

In 1990, Michael Szabo wrote a book called Making Waves, telling the story of the first 20 years of Greenpeace. He's just brought this project up to date with Making Waves II. He joins us to tell us… Audio, Gallery

While the Ministry of Education works on a new curriculum to teach Aotearoa's history in schools, the fight is on for what that taught history should be. Dr Richard Shaw is a Professor of Politics at… Audio, Gallery

We talk to Matt Garrick, Yothu Yindi's authorised biographer about Writing in the Sand, the epic story of one of Australia's most original bands and how 'Treaty' - released 30 years ago - gave voice… Audio

Georgia Pritchett's memoir is called My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety. Audio

Dire Straits are one of the biggest bands in rock history, having sold more than 100 million records, having won four Grammy Awards, and having embarked on some of the biggest tours the industry has… Audio

It's taken a while but finally Wellington joins New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Paul Cleave's Christchurch as a cool crime novel city. As Anne Harre described it: "Dig a little deeper and the… Audio

When Covid struck and put a halt on touring, rockers Jane and Jimmy Barnes (as the Jane Barnes Band) launched a series of online performances, which attracted millions of views from around the world… Audio, Gallery

Otaki-based playwright Renée has many feathers in her cap, having written numerous plays and nine fiction novels - the latest being her first venture into crime writing, The Wild Card, which she… Audio

Rafia Zakaria's latest book of essays Against White Feminism bills itself as a counter-manifesto to "white feminism's global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist… Audio

Writer Danyl McLauchlan returns to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week: in the 2010s readers devoured the four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, written under the… Audio

Pioneering British psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Gwen Adshead has spent more than spent 30 years working inside prisons and with offenders at Broadmoor Hospital - this is where some of the UK's… Audio

At just eight years old, an aggressive bone cancer threatened Jess Quinn's life. When endless rounds of chemotherapy failed to shrink the tumour, she was put forward for rotationplasty, a pioneering… Audio

Author and historian Hampton Sides' latest book, The Exotic: Intrigue and Cultural Ruin in the Age of Imperialism, tells the remarkable story of Mai, a central figure in the story of Captain James… Audio

Foxton-born author Meg Mason would be forgiven for feeling like the last 12 or so months have passed in a blur. Although it was her second novel (and third book overall), the release of Sorrow and… Audio

Multi-award winning American writer Jonathan Franzen is back with an epic novel about family, religion and culture. Crossroads is set in the 1970s and focuses on the Hildebrandt family - father Russ… Audio

Rebel Wilson is an Australian actor, writer and producer who's fulfilled a long time ambition to write a children's book.  Audio

A new book is celebrating Maoritanga and the true stories of Maori who have achieved incredible things. The book Kia Kaha, by Stacey Morrison and Jeremy Sherlock, documents 49 Maori people and groups… Audio

In compiling the latest edition of the book 250 Years of New Zealand Painting, art critic and writer Edward Hanfling believes it has been three decades since painting's place as the pre-eminent… Audio, Gallery