15 Best New Zealand Book Podcasts

1. The Featherston Booktown Podcast

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The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artifact and craft of the book. Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.MORE Hosts Shane Te Pou, Phil Quin
Producer/Network Featherston Booktown
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2. Loose Reads

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Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Kiran Dass from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week. Broadcast from Auckland, New Zealand on Monday mornings after 9am, on 95bFM Breakfast with Mikey Havoc.MORE Producer/Network 95bFM Brekky & Drive Bits
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3. The Amateur Austenite

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An enthusiastic amateur discusses Jane Austen's novels chapter by chapter. All are welcome whether you have a fancy degree or not.
Host Frances Duncan
Producer/Network Frances Duncan
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4. Bookenz

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With a lifelong passion for books and a growing passion for New Zealand authors, program hosts Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout utilize their wealth of radio broadcasting experience to bring you Bookenz. A weekly program that brings you the latest on new books and their authors, from both New Zealand and abroad. Bookenz organises several fundraising events each year with touring writers which have proven to be very popular events to the wider community.MORE Producer/Network Morrin Rout
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5. The Marlborough Book Festival

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The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers.MORE Producer/Network The Marlborough Book Festival
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6. Write On with Vanda Symon

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Award winning crime writer Vanda Symon hosts this show on behalf of the Otago-Southland branch of the NZ Society of Authors. Every month she interviews a local or international writer about their current projects and the process of writing. Write On with Vanda Symon has been created with the generous support from the University Book Shop.MORE Producer/Network Beverly Martens
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7. The Wonderful World of Wardini Books

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Louise Ward is a former police officer and teacher, now co-owner of Wardini Books in Havelock North and Napier, finally putting that English Literature degree to relevant use. She shares the book shops with author husband Gareth, well known locally as magician and hypnotist The Great Wardini. As Gareth usually gets all the glamorous jobs and Louise does the admin, she's thrilled to have this opportunity to be on the radio. Louise sells books by day, and reads them by night; she claims to be living the dream.MORE Producer/Network Louise Ward
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8. The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals

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Irresistible book recommendations for binge readers.
Producer/Network Jenny Wheeler
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9. Alphabet Book Club

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A virtual book club for readers of queer books in Aotearoa-New Zealand!
Producer/Network Alphabet Book Club
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10. BOOKS THAT WORK

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Business books you're too busy to read but need to know about. Get the best and most useful bits from business writing covering everything from leadership, to culture, to the future of work and strategy. We speed read a book, talk to the author, and share five things each time to adopt or try to make work better.MORE Producer/Network Anna Hughes
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11. The Author's Tale

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Casual conversations with prominent and influential New Zealand Authors. How did they become a writer, what inspires them, influences them and where does their writing journey take them next? The first series features Canterbury authors Kathleen Gallagher, Gavin Bishop and James Norcliffe. Presented and Produced by Stephanie Frewen, made with assistance from the Christchurch City Council and Creative Communities Scheme.MORE Host Stephanie Frewen
Producer/Network Stephanie Frewen
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