Books on Saturday Morning, September 2009
This is a list of books by writers interviewed on the programme by Kim Hill, or books discussed by her and a guest. Books usually have a 2009 or 2008 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
26 September
Nick Hornby:
His new novel is Juliet, Naked (Viking, ISBN: 9780670915668), and he is also the author of the bestselling novels High Fidelity (1995), About a Boy (1998), How to Be Good (2001), A Long Way Down (2005), and Slam (2007); the football memoir Fever Pitch, and four books of essays: 31 Songs (2003),The Polysyllabic Spree (2004), Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (2006), and Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008). He recently adapted Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education (Penguin, ISBN: 9780141039558) into the film of the same name.
Running Blind
by Rob Matthews
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-1-86950-801-2)
Anyone Can Cook: Fresh Ideas for Busy Lives
by Annabelle Langbein
(Annabel Langbein Books, ISBN 978-0-958-2668-0-2)
Ben and Mark, Boys of the High Country
by Christine Fernyhough and John Bougen
(Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86979-068-4)
19 September
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
by Suzanne Gordon
(Cornell University Press, 2000)
NB. In the course of this interview, Kim mentioned the new Anne Tyler novel, Noah’s Compass (Chatto & Windus, ISBN: 9780701184247)
Sleeping with the Dead
by Marko Cunningham
(Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86979-270-1)
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1783-1939
by James Belich
(Oxford University Press, ISBN: 978-0-19-929727-6)
Grasp the Nettle: Making Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Work
by Peter Proctor
(1997, 2002, Random House, ISBN: 1-86941-318-0)
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate will discuss three new picture books:
Isabella’s Garden by Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool (Walker Books: ISBN: 978-1-921150-33-3);
Stuck by Charlotte Calder and Mark Jackson (Walker Books: ISBN: 978-1-921150-46-3);
A Bit of Company by Margaret Wild and Wayne Harris (Walker Books: ISBN: 978-1-921529-05-4);
and two older books:
Old Pig, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (1995, Little Ark, ISBN: 1-86373-679-4);
Fox, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (2000, Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 1-86448-933-2).
12 September
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent
Dr Michael Cathcart
(Text, ISBN: 9781921520648)
Grow It, Cook It
by Sally Cameron and Charlie Smith
(Penguin, ISBN: 978-0143-010-968)
The Tui NZ Vegetable Garden
by Sally Cameron
(Penguin, ISBN: 978-014-320228-8)
5 September
Why Men Want Sex & Women Need Love
by Allan and Barbara Pease
(Pease International, ISBN: 1-92081630-5)
The Idiot Boy Who Flew
by Graham Reid
(Public Address Books, ISBN: 978-0-9864525-0-5)
also author of the 2005 book Postcards from Elsewhere: Odd Destinations and Unusual Encounters (Random House, ISBN: 1869417097)
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi:
Kate discussed British illustrator Charles Keeping. His long career stretched from illustrations for the 1957 book The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff and the 1970 Greek myth collection The God Beneath the Sea, to his own titles, which included Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary (1967), Joseph's Yard (1969), Through the Window (1970), Wasteground Circus (1975), Cockney Ding Dong (1975), and Willie's Fire Engine (1980).