This week: Economic outlook.

Writer Caroline Barron has followed her award winning 2020 memoir Ripiro Beach with a novel, Golden Days. She talks about the 1990's night-life which influenced it, as well as the three authors who will be appearing on the memoir panel she is chairing for Hamilton Book Month on Friday August 9.

Craig Hoyle grew up in Invercargill within the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. In this reflective interview he speaks about his early life, being excommunicated from the church and the discoveries he made about other 'missing' family as he wrote his memoir 'Excommunicated'. Craig is in Kirikiriroa as part of Hamilton Book Month.

Melissa Smith, co-chair and spokesperson at Bike Waikato, joins us for a fortnightly update.

Update on what is going on in the Waipā district, particularly Cambridge, from deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk.

Lexie Matheson is a double international sports representative for New Zealand in karate and archery. She is actively involved in international sports leadership and has valuable insights into the current gender debates, trans-inclusion in sport and social media outrage around the Paris Olympics.

Jane Eyre, speaks with Cate Prestidge about writing and publishing her children's book about a friendly Maine Coon cat Fergusson, and her latest work editing a poetry anthology Mercurial Threads. Jane will be at the Author's Showcase as part of Hamilton Book Month on 31 August — hamiltonbookmonth.com

Author, academic, activist and 'living legend' Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku speaks about her new memoir, Hine Toa ahead of the Memoir Panel at Hamilton Book Month. The book is getting rave reviews.

Ngāhuia speaks about why she wrote the book, her experiences as a Māori student and activist in the late 60s and 70s, and what home means to her.

Award winning New Zealand author Emily Perkins joins Cate Prestidge to talk about her latest work Lioness, which is getting rave reviews. They discuss Lioness and some of Emily's other work ahead of her appearance at the Hamilton Book Month Fiction Panel (hamiltonbookmonth.com)

The first large scale African Bazaar event in Hamilton will be taking place at Claudelands Event Centre on Saturday August 3 from 11am to 5pm. Kemi and Akeem from Afroconnect NZ join Mike in the studio to talk about it.