Expand your reading list, explore new horizons and prepare to get inspired. Four writers reveal the books that influenced them, exhilarated them and made them into the writers they are.

Hear from Australian-based novelist Pip Williams, author of the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho; poet Rushi Vyas, two-time finalist for the US National Poetry series with his collection When I Reach For Your Pulse; science fiction writer, author of Na Viro, and Pasfikafuturist Gina Cole; and NZ crime and historical fiction writer Paddy Richardson, author of By the Green of the Spring. Hosted by Ruby Porter

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Last updated: 06 April 2023