Katherine Mansfield is still one of our most successful authors, 88 years after her premature death from tuberculosis.
From the Heart
Dame Alison Holst is one of this country’s most prolific authors. With her 100th title published this year and total sales of 4.4 million books.
Missing in Action
Leadership in the 21st century has never been so necessary, yet everywhere we turn our leaders and role models are letting us down - in politics, business, sport and entertainment, even organised religion.
Mister Jones
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe,” Lloyd Jones has Mister Watts tell his class in Mister Pip.
Off the Page
How hard is it to adapt a work for stage or screen? What are the technicalities of writing a script? How many liberties do actors take with a script when delivering their lines?
Saving the World
An environmental activist and advocate, Paul Gilding believes we are in a time of great global change that will lead to the end of shopping!
The Three Rs
Reading, writing and rugby - our guests can’t get enough of them, even after the long feast of the Rugby World Cup.
True Fiction
With the line between fact and fiction becoming increasingly blurred, awardwinning authors Jenny Pattrick (historical fiction) and Elizabeth Smither (poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer) discuss where research leaves off and creativity begins.
