Author Interview

Caroline Barron embarked on a search for her father's birth family in her new book, Ripiro Beach. She wanted to find out more about where she came from and who she is. But some of what she discovered… Audio

Dr. Ron Palenski's new book, Our Game: New Zealand Rugby at 150 offers a fresh take on the beginnings of the game of rugby in this country, with the veteran scribe offering new evidence of a game that… Audio

Local author Pip Adam's latest book Nothing to See follows intertwining characters navigating sobriety and surveillance capitalism in three snapshots taken 12 years apart. The book follows her… Audio

American behavioural economist Robert Frank is interested in the power of peer pressure to influence our behaviour. So with the world facing a deadly pandemic and potentially catastrophic climate… Audio

Children's story writer and comedian David Walliams speaks with Lynn Freeman about his latest book Slime, podcasting and conversations with his mum during lock-down. Video, Audio

When English writer CS Lewis wrote that "friendship has no survival value" he wasn't quite correct, says science journalist Lydia Denworth. Friendship is, in fact, as important for your physical… Audio

The sun never revolved around the earth, Galileo knew it and paid the price for saying so. Fast forward 400 years and there's something that does keep going around and around the world, science… Audio

Novelist and literary critic Catherine Robertson is about to step into the world of self-publishing - she joins the show today to tell us how it's done and the benefits of of doing so. Audio

Chronic fatigue syndrome and other ‘mystery’ neural-inflammatory illnesses are now widespread and we urgently need to understand them better, says US singer Sarah Ramey. Her new book The Lady's… Audio

Ireland-born and Australian-based author Chris Flynn's latest novel Mammoth is an unsurprisingly left-field offering, featuring actors Nicholas Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio, and narration by a… Audio

Alexandra Shulman was editor of British Vogue for 25 years before resigning in 2017. It not surprising then that clothes are at the centre of her new memoir. Clothes... And Other Things That Matter… Audio

In 1970 Penguin Books Australia took a radical decision which upturned over seventy years worth of censorship legislation. Audio

Yuot A. Alaak's Father of the Lost Boys is the personal account of his father leading him and thousands of boy soldiers like him out of danger during Africa's longest running civil war. Audio

A former CEO says we should be more like artists when managing our lives and big organisations as the best way to be resilient and prepared for challenges in an uncertain age. Audio

Award-winning film and TV writer and director Michael Bennett is this year's recipient of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission's Te Aupounamu Maōri Screen Excellence award. Audio

Bluff poet Cilla McQueen has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today's Honour's list. She joins Karyn to talk about a life of words and writing. Audio

The Detail catches up with Sharon Brettkelly's sister and her family, still - after three months - in lockdown in California. So much has happened, and nothing has happened.  Audio

A novel written in part to help the author makes sense of the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election. Born in Los Angeles, Marolyn Krasner is now living in Palmerston North. Her novel's called… Audio