Karen and Louisa recommend good reads about the joy of walking, whether for pilgrimage, protest, therapy, exercise or pure pleasure.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/books-and-beyond-take-a-walk.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 4 November 2018.

Karen and Louisa take inspiration from the Renaissance tradition of celebrating Valentine’s Day with ‘flirtatious entertainments’, frolicking with great and less great love stories through the ages, and sharing a selection of New Zealand love poetry.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog:

https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/books-and-beyond-valentines-day.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 10 February 2019.

Alison reprises her part in the 'After-Hours Storytime for Grown-ups and Other Family' (tagline: Move over Brothers Grimm, here come the Sisters Gay) held at Grey Lynn Library as part of the 2019 same same but different LBGTQI literary festival, and she and Karen chat about their favourite rainbow writing.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/books-and-beyond-happy-pride.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 17 February 2019.

Peter Bland, prize-winning poet, playwright and charismatic actor ('Came a hot Friday'), talks with Karen about his life and his work, and reads from his newest collections of “poems adrift / like paper boats or messages in bottles / careless of landfall, happy to be themselves”.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog:

https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/books-and-beyond-peter-bland.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 19 February 2019.

Karen and Louisa recommend books to help you power through your resolutions. Get more sleep? Read a short story by Henry James. Be more like Michelle Obama? Read 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog:

https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/books-and-beyond-new-years-resolutions.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 20 January 2019.

Karen and Louisa share poems, historical recollections, and scenes from classic and contemporary literature which pay tribute to our beautiful city on its anniversary.

Books mentioned in this episode can be requested from our catalogue:

Dove on the waters by Maurice Shadbolt: bit.ly/3IgRffP

The new animals by Pip Adam: bit.ly/3uuCnEJ

Te Atatu me: photographs of an urban New Zealand village by John B. Turner; historical essay by Grant Cole: bit.ly/3ONwvPd

A fine prospect: a history of Remuera, Meadowbank and St Johns by Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow: bit.ly/3upwZD1

Urban village: the story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary’s Bay by Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow: bit.ly/3Awwtac

Auckland by the sea: 100 years of work and play by David Johnson: bit.ly/3AE7Kk2

Flowers after the sun: poems by John Pule: bit.ly/3RaAwyV

Sonnets to Van Gogh & providence by John Pule: bit.ly/3InyszA

Love as a stranger by Owen Marshall: bit.ly/3IzfINH

One hundred poems and a year by Bob Orr: bit.ly/3agbP3u

This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman: bit.ly/3ahH9P6

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/books-and-beyond-auckland-anniversary-2019.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 27 January 2019.

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Trivia, the weather, gossip, and those big questions! Karen and Louisa recommend the best conversation-starting books for whiling away a weekend afternoon at the beach.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/books-and-beyond-talking-points.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 3 February 2019.

For Books & Beyond’s 50th show, Karen and Louisa celebrate by reminiscing about their best – or worst – bloopers and gaffes through the year and reveal the winner of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title which featured in the 'Offbeat literary prizes' show.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/books-and-beyond-50th-anniversary.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 30 December 2018.

Councillor Mike Lee has his scholar and author’s hat on as he talks with Karen about his new book 'Navigators and naturalists: French exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769-1824)', which weaves together geography, natural philosophy and human history, in telling the story of the great French naturalist-voyagers.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/books-and-beyond-mike-lee.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 6 January 2019.

Acclaimed literary biographer Joanne Drayton chats with Karen about 'Hudson & Halls: the food of love', her new book about the beloved TV chefs who helped change New Zealand’s attitude in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing, homosexuality. They were also captains of a culinary revolution that saw the overthrow of Aunt Daisy and Betty Crocker, and the dawn of a Pacific-rich, Asian-style international cuisine.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog:

https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/books-and-beyond-joanne-drayton.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm.

This episode originally aired on PlanetFM 104.6 on 13 January 2019.