Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Suri Reddy from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week. Broadcast from Auckland, New Zealand on Monday mornings after 9am, on 95bFM Breakfast with Mikey Havoc. more

An enthusiastic amateur discusses Jane Austen's novels chapter by chapter. All are welcome whether you have a fancy degree or not. more

The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book. Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival. The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand. more

The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers. For more information, head to: https://www.marlboroughbookfest.co.nz/ more

Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I'm your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife, organiser of ideas, writer, editor, and writing coach. On the show I take you behind the scenes of writing my book and bring you guests to share their experience writing, editing, and publishing their book babies. more

Casual conversations with prominent and influential New Zealand Authors.How did they become a writer, what inspires them, influences them and where does their writing journey take them next?The first series features Canterbury authors Kathleen Gallagher, Gavin Bishop and James Norcliffe.Series two: Helen Lowe and Heather McQuillan with more to follow.Presented and Produced by Stephanie Frewen, made with assistance from the Christchurch City Council and Creative Communities Scheme, and also Edition Audiobooks - www.editionaudiobooks.com edition@editionaudiobooks.com - working with authors and publishers in New Zealand and beyond to create Audiobooks and Ebooks.Contact: theauthorstale.nz@yahoo.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

With a life long passion for books and for New Zealand authors, programme host Morrin Rout utilizes her wealth of radio broadcasting experience to bring you Bookenz, a weekly programme that brings you the latest on new books and their authors, from both New Zealand and abroad. Join Morrin as she interviews authors from Aotearoa, discussing their best and latest work. For new authors there can be a hard road ahead, and the programme wishes to promote these talented authors. Covering an eclectic mix of books, from fiction and non-fiction to even the occasional cookbook, Bookenz is your programme to discover the next book to curl up with on a sunny Canterbury day. If you have a passion for reading and wish to support our local New Zealand authors, tune in to Bookenz on 96.9 Plains Media weekly at 12pm on Tuesdays, repeated 12:00pm on Saturdays. Subscribe to never miss an episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. more

Write On is hosted by Beverly Martens, a Dunedin-based writer and founder of Dunedin Literary Walking Tours. In each show, Beverly interviews local writers and people involved in the book industry. She also promotes local events and shares some good music. Write On with Beverly Martens is presented on behalf of the Otago Southland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors and has been created with generous support from the University Book Shop. more

Never be without something remarkable to read. We recommend the latest and best in mystery, suspense, romance and historical adventure, so you'll never be without a book you can't put down. Interviews with successful series authors and their passionate readers, where readers and writers share the guilty pleasures of binge reading. more

Business books you're too busy to read - but need to know about. Get the best and most useful bits from business writing covering everything from leadership, to culture, to the future of work and strategy. We speed read a book, talk to the author and share five things each time to adopt or try to make work better. more