Books on Saturday Morning, October 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.
29 October (guest host Paul Diamond)
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic
by Fintan O'Toole
(Faber, ISBN: 9780571270095).
The Broken Book
by Fiona Farrell
(AUP, ISBN 978-1-86940-576-2),
Strikingly True (the 2011 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual)
(Icewater Press, ISBN: 9781609910006)
22 October
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
byThomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
(Farrar Straus Giroux, ISBN: 978-0-37-428890-7)
Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance
by Sir Paul Callaghan
(OUP, ISBN: 978-0-19-955698-4)
Sweet As: Journeys in a New Zealand Summer
by Garth Cartwright
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-877-50508-9)
His previous books include More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music (Serpents Tail 2009), and Princes Among Men: Journeys with Gypsy Musicians (Serpents Tail 2005)
Christchurch Heritage: a Celebration of Lost Buildings and Streetscapes
by Bruce Ansley}
(Random House, ISBN: 978-186979-863-5)
15 October
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
by Kate Camp
(Victoria University Press , ISBN: 9780864736215)
Wind from a Distant Summit: the Story of New Zealand’s Leading Woman Mountaineer
by Pat Deavoll
(Craig Potton Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-877517-46-4)
The Art of the Adventures of Tintin
by Chris Guise
(Weta/HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-1-86950-930-9)
Briefcase
by John Adams
(AUP, 978-1-86940-491-8)
8 October
Three Famines: Starvation and Politics
by Tom Keneally
(Knopf, ISBN: 978-1-74166-855-1)
Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
by Costas Panayotakis
(Pluto Press, ISBN: 9780745330990) - to be published later in 2011
Psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability
by Niki Harré
(ISBN: 978-0-473-19304-1)
1 October
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
by Luke Harding
(Guardian Books, ISBN: 9780852652473)
Everything is Obvious *Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails
by Duncan Watts
(Atlantic Books, ISBN: 978-1-84887-215-8)
Feast Day of Fools
by James Lee Burke
(Orion, ISBN: 978-1-4091-4031-3)