This page lists books by writers interviewed on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, or books discussed by Kim and a guest. Books are usually published in the current year, or the one previous, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.

19 December

A Mother’s Disgrace
by  Robert Dessaix
(1994, A&R Classics, ISBN: 978-0-7322-9737-4)

What Days Are For: a Collection of Musings
by  Robert Dessaix
(2012, Vintage, ISBN: 978-0-85798-901-7)

Kate De Goldi book list 2015:

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fates and Furies by Lauren Goff
The Shore by Sara Taylor
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Under Majordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (also The Sisters Brothers)
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy (also the short story collection, The Not-Dead and the Saved)
NeuroTribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
The Man Who Made Things Out of Wood by Robert Penn
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room’, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel See What I Can See by Gregory O'Brien
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
The Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years Of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics And Graphic Novels

Laura Kroetsch book list 2015:

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Shore by Sara Taylor
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (also The Sisters Brothers)
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane (published early 2016)
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell by Sarah Ruhl (also 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write)
Words in Air by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate
Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life by Piet Oudolf
Stoner by John Williams
Collected Poems by Mark Strand
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Music books with Nick Bollinger:

Going Into the City by Robert Christgau
Another Little Piece of My Heart by Richard Goldstein
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon
M Train by Patti Smith
Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll by Fred Goodman
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock’n’Roll by Peter Guralnick
How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World by Simon Grigg
Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald

Poetry with Gregory O’Brien

Selected Poems of Charles Brasch, edited by Alan Roddick (Otago University Press)
Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, edited by David Howard (Otago University Press)
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O’Sullivan (Victoria University Press)
This Must Be the __ Place by Annabel Hawkins (Makaro Press)
There Are No Horses in Heaven by Frankie McMillan (Canterbury University Press)
Ocean and Stone by Dinah Hawken (Victoria University Press)
Beyond Puketapu by Dunstan Ward (Steele Roberts Publishing)
Some of Us Eat the Seeds by Morgan Bach (Victoria University Press)
Failed Love Poems by Joan Fleming (Victoria University Press)
Thuds Underneath by Brent Kininmont (Victoria University Press)
Looking Out To Sea by Kevin Ireland (Steele Roberts)
Now You Know by Michael Fitzsimons, with photos by Philip Birch (Fitzbeck Publishing)

 

12 December

Adam Spencer’s World of Numbers
by Adam Spencer
(Xoum, ISBN: 9781921134869)

Adam Spencer’s Enormous Book of Numbers
by Adam Spencer
(Xoum, ISBN: 9781921134883)

Kate Camp’s Klassic:
Essays by George Orwell