All week this Christmas week we countdown the best six books of 2017. Number four: Art Sex Music, the memoir by musician Cosey Fanni Tutti, whom reviewer Kiran Dass describes as 'a staunch, fearless woman with backbone'.

Thirteen years after she would walk past him every morning on the way to work, Kiran Dass talks to Matthew Bannister of Sneaky Feelings about the band's return and its place in Flying Nun folk lore.

Kiran Dass in conversation with literary sensation Hanya Yanagihara.

Dutch novelist Herman Koch writes page-turning thrillers about the repulsiveness of the people next door in middle-class neighbourhoods. Kiran Dass interviewed him ahead of his appearance at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Kiran Dass interviews English post-punk legend Martin Bramah, on the eve of his former band The Fall's New Zealand tour, about his life in drugs and music.