Books on Radio NZ National: 5 - 11 November 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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The Children's Book Review on Nine to Noon
Friday, 4 November 2011Anchor

John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop (Kilbirnie) will talk about:

Poo Bum                    
by Stephanie Blake                
Published by Gecko Press 
ISBN 9781877467974                                   

Bruiser     
by Gavin Bishop                            
Published by Random House      
ISBN 9781869794514

Rudie Nudie                               
by Emma Quay
Published by ABC Books     
ISBN 9780733323355
 

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Saturday, 5 November 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 New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230613959

Predicted the current economic crisis. Find out more on his website.

Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
by Michael Corballis
Auckland University Press
ISBN 9781869404925
Nightwoods
by Charles Frazier
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 9781444731255

Chicken
by Annie Potts
Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861898586 - to be published in late November.

Learn more online

Children's books with Kate De Goldi

The Apothecary
by Maile Meloy
Text Publishing
ISBN 9781921758171                                    
Stuck in the Muck
by Brett Avison and Craig Smith
Five Mile Press
ISBN 9781742486420

I Spy NZ Art: New Zealand art from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
by Hanna Scott and Julia Waite, with Rob Gardiner, Sue Gardiner, Pauline Buchanan, Caroline McBride and Christa Napier-Robertson
Auckland Art Gallery
ISBN: 0864632789

The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman
Sunday 5 November 2011

Grahame Sydney’s Central Otago
Published by Penguin 
ISBN 9780143566694                                    

Hand me Down
by Michelle Holman
Published by HarperCollins
ISBN  9781869508715

Radio NZ National Book Readings
5 - 11 November 2011

NINE TO NOON 10:45am

Monday 7 – Friday 11 November

The Years Before My Death – David McPhail - Eps 6-10 (of 10)
Read by David McPhail
Book: The Years Before My Death: Memories of a Comic Life
Random House (13 Aug 2010) 
ISBN 781877460579

AFTERNOONS 2.30pm

Monday 7 – Friday 11 November

The Adventures of Kimble Bent - James Cowan (Eps 6-10 of 15)
Read by Peter Vere-Jones
Book: The Adventures Of Kimble Bent; A Story Of Wild Life In The New Zealand Bush
(Pub: Whitcombe and Tombs ( 1911) 

NB There have been a number of  other publications since


ALL NIGHT PROGRAMME 3.05am

Saturday 5 - Wednesday  9 November

Warrior Queen - Eps 11-15 (of 15)
by Barbara Else
Read by Ginette McDonald
Godwit, (1995)
ISBN 0908877617

Thursday 10 – Friday 11 November

Parallel Universe – Eps 1-2 (of 2)
by Charlotte Grimshaw
Read by Michael Hurst
Book: Opportunity
Vintage New Zealand (4 May 2007)
ISBN 9781869418793


THE WEDNESDAY DRAMA 9.06PM

Wednesday, 9 November

The Boxer
by  Matthew Saville
(the Play script is available from  Playmarket)

(Radio New Zealand)

Sunday 6 November 3.05pm

Aureretanga Parihaka: A dramatised  documentary drawing on the book (RNZ)      

Book: Aureretanga, Groans of the Maori   by George William Rusden
(W. Ridgway (1888 ); republished Capper Press (1975))

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

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