Books on Saturday Morning, January 2010
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 2010 or 2009 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
30 January
Mendel in the Kitchen: a Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food
by Nina V. Fedorof
(National Academies Press, ISBN: 9780309092050)
Leviathan or, The Whale
by Philip Hoare
(Fourth Estate, ISBN: 9780007230143
Philip Hoare has also written biographies of Noel Coward and aesthete Stephen Tennant, and histories of the military hospital at Spike Island, and Victorian utopian sects. He is a guest at New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week (8-14 March) during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010 (25 February - 21 March).
Iranian-born writer Fariba Hachtroudi is the author of a number of books in French, including L’Exilée (1985) and Khomeyni Express (2009). She is currently the French writer in residence at the Randell Cottage in Wellington.
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi:
Kate provides the foreword to the reissue of 1968 novel Sydney Bridge Upside Down by New Zealand writer David Ballantyne (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921520-02-0).
She discusses four new books found on the children’s shelves of the Canterbury Public Library that are not widely available in shops: Marcelo in the Real World by Franciso X Stork (Arthur Levine Books/Scholastic), On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck (Dial Books/Penguin), The Locked Garden by Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins), and Rodzina by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books).