Author Interview

Fiona McIntosh writes unashamedly commercial fiction, plenty of it, and her books are flying off the shelves. Fiona McIntosh is one of Australia's best-selling fiction writers - selling as many books… Audio

The country's first crime writing festival, Rotorua Noir is on this weekend. Participants will hear from international and local crime writers and gain more clues along the way about the elements of… Audio

One in four New Zealanders are at risk of developing a stroke during their lifetimes - the second-highest rate among developed countries. Audio

Frauke Bolton-Boshammer was a young mother of three when she and her husband Friedrich moved from Germany to the remote Australian outback town in far north Western Australia. Frauke and Friedrich… Audio

Eric Asimov is the chief wine critic for the New York Times. He began his career at The New York Times in 1984, first writing about food, and later becoming a wine critic. Eric wrote the book How to… Audio

Eve Simmons is the deputy health editor for the Mail on Sunday, a survivor of anorexia, and co-founder of the website Not Plant Based, in which she and her co-writer, Laura Dennison, scathingly pick… Audio

Scaachi Koul is a Canadian journalist whose first collection of essays, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, observes the world in a wry, irreverent, moving, and laugh-out-loud… Audio

Back in 2014, Scottish-Australian journalist Jill Stark seemed to be living the dream – she had a bestselling memoir, a good job and a "giddy" love life. Then a violent panic attack put her on the… Video, Audio

Today's Kiwi Rules guest Kevin Ireland is a poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist - someone who writes texts for musicals. He has had an incredibly successful career and among the many… Audio

Today's Kiwi Rules guest is award winning author and short story writer Charlotte Grimshaw. Her song choices are influenced by the book she's currently working on as well the music her brother… Audio

Poet and essayist Ashleigh Young was the first New Zealander to win Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize for Non Fiction. Her second book, Can You Tolerate This? , is an acclaimed collection of… Audio

Piers Steel is one of the world's leading thinkers on the science of motivation and procrastination. His book, The Procrastination Equation lays out a toolkit for "how to stop putting things off and… Audio

Nick Bollinger is taking time off from The Sampler to write a book about 70s counterculture in NZ. He talks with Music 101's Alex Behan. Audio

Intrepid Canadian reporter Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall went on a decade long quest to investigate whether or not there is a cure to the hangover. He used himself as the test subject, and tried everything… Audio

In our modern world of fast moving technology and instant messaging, we've lost the ability to wait well, says professor Jason Farman. Audio

We lose something of our inner selves when we constantly present ourselves on social media, an art critic says. Audio

Eric Clapton, a white working-class Surrey boy, was transformed on hearing the music of the Mississippi Delta, but as biographer Phillip Norman explains he was spoilt and despite avoiding controversy… Audio

Bully Hayes is famous as a charismatic "pirate" of the South Pacific. But most stories gloss over his more heinous crimes: Slavery, sexual assault and the brutal abuse of his crew. Audio