American mountaineer and writer Jon Krakauer was a member of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition that got caught in a blizzard that claimed eight lives, including New Zealanders Rob Hall and Andrew "Harold" Harris. The tragedy, one of the worst in modern climbing history, was the basis for Krakauer's bestselling book Into Thin Air.

TV host Graham Norton's previous novels Holding and A Keeper are both bestsellers, and his latest book Home Stretch is a story based in his home country Ireland in the late 1980s and features Norton's first openly gay protagonist.

Deborah Feldman was brought up in the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, a neighbourhood in the borough of Queens.

She escaped and wrote Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots, which discusses her upbringing and her painful transition into a new world of freedom and gradual happiness.

In one of his last interviews before his death in October 2020, Veteran war correspondent Robert Fisk suggested the notion that unbiased reporting mustn’t take a moral position was a nonsense and that journalists should, at the very least, challenge narratives of power, which were usually distortions of truth.

Mother, wife and community volunteer Husna Ahmed was of the 51 people killed in the Christchurch terror attacks in March 2019.

Her husband Farid, 44, has written a book about his wife's bravery and selflessness and his own forgiveness for her killer – Husna's Story.

Multi award-winning director Oliver Stone is a controversial figure in American filmmaking, he talked to Saturday Morning's Kim Hill about the first 40 years of his career.

The Vietnam veteran's portrayals of war and violence have proved contentious, as have his political views and frequent criticism of US foreign policy.

'What am I going to write about a phenomenon that's basically guys coming home drunk and beating up their wives?' was Jess Hill's first thought when she was commissioned to write a feature article about domestic abuse.

Since 2011, Australian poet, writer and photographer Judith Nangala Crispin has spent part of each year living and working with Warlpiri people in the Northern Australian Tanami desert.

Her exhibition Unseen - The Dingo's Noctuary, featured at this year's Auckland Festival of Photography.

Professor Judith Butler told Kim Hill the “nonsensical” debate between trans-exclusionary radical feminist (Terfs) and transgendered and non-binary people was divisive and embarrassing.

Melbourne-based David Coles is one of very few master paint-makers in the world.

His latest book Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour documents the extraordinary lengths we have gone to bring colour to the world.