Co-presenter Chris Ritter speaks with renowned New Zealand author James McNeish about his new novel, ‘The Crime of Huey Dunstan’. Jan Goldsmith talks with Canadian author Tom Jokinen about ‘Curtains: adventures of an undertaker in training’. This is a fascinating insight into the funeral business.File Download (29:20 min / 14 MB)

Jeremy Chambers talks about his debut novel ‘The Vintage and the Gleaning’. Through Smithy’s now sober eyes, we witness the cross generational beer culture in a small town and the hurt it brings to families.File Download (21:52 min / 10 MB)

Jon Bauer gives us the innocence of a child and the memories 20 years on in a emotional thriller ‘Rocks in the Belly’. Lily Bragge writes about her less than innocent life in her memoir ‘My Dirty Shiny Life’.File Download (30:04 min / 28 MB)

Chris Ritter speaks with Dominic Knight about his new novel of student politics ‘Comrades’. This is possibly the campus where both Dominic’s writing and political influences came from, to become one of the writers for The Chaser Team today.File Download (15:12 min / 14 MB)

How hard would it be to write a biography? ‘Roddy Parr’ has enmeshed himself into the literature and now the life of David Anthem. Author, Peter Rose, has given us a ‘witty, seductive and moving novel of a famous writer and his protege’, and it is! Sherryl Clark’s 40th book ‘One perfect pirouette’ tells about how difficult it is for all her family, when a country girl wants to fulfill her dream of being selected for the National Ballet School.File Download (19:29 min / 9 MB)

‘Milk Fever’ is the title of Lisa Reece-Lane’s book. It is also the problem with cows when they can’t nurture their calves. Could this be a problem in families too? In this cleverly writen book, Julia Heath is not so sure about leaving the cafes for cow country. The questions of happiness, forgiveness and how people view each other, especially in a small community, would all make an interesting Book Club chat.File Download (19:29 min / 9 MB)