Books on Radio NZ National 26 March - 1 April 2011

24 Mar 2011

Radio New Zealand National features several books over the course of a week. These listings are for books that will be featured on the following programmes...

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Nine to Noon: The Children's Books Review
Friday, 25 March 2011

Anchor

This week John McIntyre of The Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie, pays tribute to three great children's authors who have all died in recent months

 

 


Eva Ibottson  
- reference to the Star of Kazan and Journey to The River Sea

Dick King-Smith    
- reference to The Water Horse and Sheep Pig

Brian Jacques     
- reference to the Redwall series


Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Saturday, 26 March 2011Anchor

Booksellers New Zealand has been advised that the following books will be mentioned on Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday Morning with Kim Hill programme this weekend.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
HarperCollins
9780007367481
Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food
By Pamela Ronald and Raoul W Adamchak
2008, Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195393576
Caribou Island
by David Vann
Penguin
ISBN: 9780670918447

Also author of the memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea (2005), and the short story collection, Legend of a Suicide (2008)David Vann teaches creative nonfiction and fiction at the University of San Francisco, and is the and the new novel
The Land of Painted Caves
by Jean Auel
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340824252
NB. to be published on 29 March.

The sixth book in the Earth’s Children series that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)

Kate De Goldi will discuss three new children's books:

The Dreamer
By Pam Munoz and Peter Sis
Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439269704

An illustrated story based around the childhood of Pablo Neruda;

Trash
By Andy Mulligan
David Fickling Books
ISBN: 9780385619028

A novel about children who live in a dump site

The Golden Day
By Ursula Dubosarsky
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781742374710

A story set in 1967 about a class of girls and their teacher who go missing.

The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman
Sunday 27 March 2011

The ‘Arts on Sunday’ is hosted by Lynn Freeman and airs every Sunday afternoon on Radio New Zealand National.

This Sunday, interviews and discussions will feature the following books:

Fosterling
By Emma Neale
Published by Vintage
9781869794859


Lost Relatives
By Siobhan Harvey
Published by Steele Roberts
9781877577116

Radio NZ National Book Readings
26 March - 1 April 2011

NINE TO NOON 10.45am      

Monday 28 March – Friday 1st April
The Other Side Of Silence – Eps 6-10 (of 12)
By Margaret Mahy
Read by Bronwyn Bradley
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10 0140378030
ISBN-13 9780140378030
AFTERNOONS 2.30 PM

Monday 28 March – Friday 1st April
Plumb – Eps 6-10 (of 15)
By Maurice Gee
Read by Barry Empson
Penguin Books N.Z. Ltd
ISBN No. 9780143204404

ALL NIGHT PROGRAMME 3.05am

Saturday 26 March

The Blind Astronomer 
By Tracy Farr
Read by Bronwyn Bradley
(Radio New Zealand)
Sunday 27 March

Experiments in Space and Time
By Carl Nixon
Read by Tim Spite
(Radio New Zealand)

Monday 28 March
Weight Of The World 
By Melanie Drewery
Read by Fran Kora
(Radio New Zealand)
 
Tuesday 29 March

The Letter
By Ruth Dallas
Read by Simon Ferry
(Radio New Zealand)


Wednesday 30 March – Friday 1st April
Aunts And Windmills –Eps 1-3 (of 10)
Pauline O’Regan
Read by Glenis Levestam
Bridget Williams Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978 0 9089 12018
ISBN-10: 09089 12013

Saturday 12 March 6.45pm

LOVING ALL OF IT – Eminent New Zealanders Write About Growing Old
Curiously Liberating Information
By Rodney Wilson – Eps 17 (of 18)
Read by Rodney Wilson
Random House
ISBN 9781869793319

Sunday 27 March 3.05pm
Please Help Yourself
By Tess Jamieson
(Radio New Zealand)
Sunday 27 March 3.24pm
The Election
By Simon Leary
(Radio New Zealand)
Sunday 27 March 3.43pm
I Love You . . . Toru, Wha!
By Moana Ete
(Radio New Zealand)

Wednesday 30 March 9.06pm
The Orderly 
By Michael Downey
(Radio New Zealand)

Read the schedule for Nine to Noon's The Book Review

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