Podcast appearances and mentions of kiran dass

Kiran Dass reviews three of her favourite books from last year.

Kiran Dass reviews The Silver Book by Olivia Laing, published by Penguin Books NZ.

Kiran Dass reviews Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly by Craig Robertson, published by Auckland University Press.

Kiran Dass reviews Universality by Natasha Brown, published by Faber.

Literary festival director and music aficionado Kiran Dass plays some favourite tunes and shares what it's like running WORD Christchurch.

Kiran Dass reviews Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, published by Hamish Hamilton.

Kiran Dass reviews Base Notes: The Scents of a Life by Adelle Stripe published by Orion

Kiran Dass reviews The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Kiran Dass reviews Audition by Katie Kitamura published by Fern Press

Kiran Dass reviews The Place of Tides by James Rebanks published by Penguin Press.

Kiran Dass reviews three of her favourite books from last year:

Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond published by Massey University Press.

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize. Book critic Kiran Dass spoke to Corin Dann.

Kiran Dass reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney published by Faber

Kiran Dass is a trusted book critic, writer, and judge of some of New Zealand's most prestigious book awards. She's also the Programme Lead at WORD Christchurch and joins Mihi and Susie to talk about this years festival highlights.

Kiran Dass reviews The Garden Against Time: In Search of Common Paradise by Olivia Laing published by Picador

Kiran Dass reviews Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley published by Serpent's Tail.

Kiran Dass reviews Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson published by Fourth Estate.

Kiran Dass reviews Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti published by Fitzcarraldo Editions

Kiran Dass reviews When I open the shop by Romesh Dissanayake published by Te Herenga Waka Univeristy Press

Kiran Dass reviews three of her favourite books from last year

Kiran Dass reviews The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor published by Weindfeld and Nicholson

Kiran Dass reviews Living Between Land & Sea: The Bays of Whakaraupo Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson published by Massey University Press Pub by: Massey University Press

Kiran Dass reviews The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg published by Daunt Books

Kiran Dass reviews Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton

Kiran Dass reviews Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein published by HarperCollins

Kiran Dass reviews August Blue by Deborah Levy, published by Penguin Random House

Kiran Dass reviews Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan, published by Daunt

Kiran Dass reviews A Horse at Night - On Writing by Amina Cain, published by Daunt

Kiran Dass reviews three of her favourite books from last year: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, published by Giramondo; Assembly by Natasha Brown, published by Hamish Hamilton, and The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers, published by White Rabbit Books

Kiran Dass reviews Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond, published by Massey University Press

Kiran Dass reviews Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Kiran Dass reviews Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews, published by Sceptre.

Kiran Dass reviews Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Kiran Dass reviews The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight, published by Allen and Unwin Pub by: Allen and Unwin RRP: $37.00

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

Kiran Dass reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, published by Picador

Kiran Dass reviews Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, published by Faber

Kiran Dass reviews three favourite novels from 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, published by Faber; Intimacies by Katie Kitamura published by Jonathan Cape and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley published by Granta.

Kiran Dass reviews The Fell by Sarah Moss, published by Picador.

Kiran Dass reviews The Fell by Sarah Moss, published by Picador.

Kiran Dass reviews Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, published by Daunt Books.

Kiran Dass reviews Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, published by Daunt Books.

Kiran Dass reviews The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan, published by White Rabbit.

Kiran Dass reviews Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann, published by Text Publishing.

Kiran Dass reviews Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann, published by Text Publishing.

Kiran Dass reviews the 2021 International Booker Prize winner At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop, published by Pushkin.

Kiran Dass reviews the 2021 International Booker Prize winner At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop, published by Pushkin.

Becky Manawatu's debut novel, Auē, garnered critical acclaim and announced her as a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction, winning the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Kiran Dass described Auē as “a beautifully pitched and nuanced hopeful story about the power of love, friendship and family”. Becky is the Robert Burns Fellow for 2021 and hopes to use the opportunity for both personal and professional growth, as she works on a sequel (of sorts) to Auē. Lynn Freeman will quiz Becky about how her meteoric rise to literary fame has affected her approach to writing and life.

Kiran Dass reviews The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, published by Pan Macmillan.