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Jacinta Ruru: Books of Mana

Jacinta Ruru talks to RNZ about bringing together some of Aotearoa's most renowned Māori thinkers in a wide-ranging kōrero about the influence and empowerment of Māori writing in B...

14 February 2025

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Korean resilience and Kiwi optimism: Graci Kim

Graci Kim, award-winning author of the Last Fallen Star and Dreamslinger series, talks Korean resilience and Kiwi optimism, and why her book tour to the US has been cancelled.

13 February 2025

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Magic, collaborations, not growing up: Elena de Roo

Tell All Thursday begins again for 2025. Kete talks to Elena de Roo, children's author and poet, who recently released WIZARDRY TO WĒTĀ VERSE, a book of poems for children illustra...

12 February 2025

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Extract: Mrs D is Not on a Diet, by Lotta Dann

Why do we believe that to be healthy you must be skinny? Why do we think any measure of fat on our body is bad? Why do so many of us hate our bodies? And why do we spend so much ti...

11 February 2025

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What's coming up? Fiction and Poetry highlights of early 2025

A round-up of fiction highlights coming in the first half of 2025. Find your next read here...

4 February 2025

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Extract: The Paradise Generation, by Sanna Thompson

Sanna Thompson's debut novel, THE PARADISE GENERATION, was shortlisted for the Storylines Tessa Duder Award in 2022. In 22nd century Pōneke Wellington, Kieran must save his hospita...

3 February 2025

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Nicola Legat on the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist

Chair of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust Nicola Legat joins Emile Donovan of RNZ to celebrate the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist.

29 January 2025

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Novelist Jenny Pattrick on her pivot to theatre writing

Denniston Rose author Jenny Pattrick discusses writing for stage with RNZ.

18 January 2025

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Growing Up: Michael Mansvelt on opulence on a budget

Michael Mansvelt, author of EVERYDAY OPULENCE, writes about creating opulence on a budget, taking care and pride in what you have available to create beauty.

8 January 2025

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Niki Bezzant on The Everything Guide

Health writer Niki Bezzant joins Jim Mora of RNZ to discuss her new book The Everything Guide: Hormones, Health and Happiness in Menopause, Midlife and Beyond.

14 December 2024

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Kete Cooks: Christmas at the Castle

A second venture into the Kete kitchen delivers on sesame and miso prawns from CHRISTMAS AT THE CASTLE but fails on festive jumpers.

5 December 2024

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Literary festivals, stereotypes upended, travel: Simon Rowe

Tell All Thursday is our new interview series, and for the first we talk to Simon Rowe, author of MAMI SUZUKI, which was nominated for the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award.

4 December 2024

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Extract: The Defiance of Frances Dickinson

A story of gaslighting, control and one woman's fight, THE DEFIANCE OF FRANCES DICKINSON reveals the truth behind one of the most sensational divorce trials of the nineteenth centu...

3 December 2024

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Books and the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill

Pip Adam discusses some personal recommendations around books and writing that she found useful when formulating her thoughts around the debate around the bill.

18 November 2024

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Extract: Table Talk: Opinions, stories, and a play, by C.K. Stead

Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic C.K Stead combines essays, short stories, blogs, reviews and an 'approximation' of a play first written in French by Ra...

18 November 2024

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Hana Tapiata on Atua Wāhine: The Ancient Wisdom of Māori Goddesses

Hana Tapiata discusses her book Atua Wāhine: The Ancient Wisdom of Māori Goddesses which explores the 17 female Māori goddesses who make up the world around us.

15 November 2024

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Now and Then: Four Questions with Adrienne Jansen of Landing Press

Adrienne Jansen talks to Kete about Landing Press's new anthology, NOW AND THEN, where 92 writers from across Aotearoa write on the theme of generations.

14 November 2024

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Extract: Lily, Oh, Lily: Searching for a Nazi Ghost, by Jeffrey Holman

'What if the dead - our dead - never feel to us that they have gone? If family stories, fragments of their lives, continue to nag and haunt us? Lily Hasenburg was just such a figur...

12 November 2024