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Books on Saturday Morning, November 2011

This page lists books by writers interviewed on the programme by Kim Hill, or books discussed by Kim and a guest. Books usually have a 2011 or 2010 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.

26 November

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
by Jane Gleeson-White
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74175-755-2)

Free Range in the City
by Annabel Langbein
(Annabel Langbein Books, ISBN: 978-0-9582668-5-7)
- author of the 2010 book The Free Range Cook

Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious
by David Veart
(AUP, ISBN: 978-1-86940-465-9)
- author of the 2008 book, First Catch Your Weka: a Story of New Zealand Cooking

19 November

Walking with the Taniwha
by Paul Bennett
(ISBN: 978-0-473-12755-8)

Life Without the Boring Bits
by Colleen McCullough
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-7322-9448-9)

12 November

The Sports Insider: a Life Among Champions
by Jack Ralston and Steve Kilgallon
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-87750-510-2)

So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World
by Peter Graham
(Awa Press, ISBN: 978-1-877551-12-3)

5 November

The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra
(2008, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-0230613959)

Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
by Michael Corballis
(AUP, ISBN: 978 1 86940 492 5)

Chicken
by Annie Potts
(Reaktion Books, ISBN: 978-1-86189-858-6)

Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi:

The Apothecary, by Maile Meloy (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921758-17-1);
Stuck in the Muck, by Brett Avison and Craig Smith (Five Mile Press, ISBN: 978-1-74248-642-0);
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: 0-86463-278-9)

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