Prize winning fiction ofAdam Johnson and the hot-off-the-press memoir of CONTENTS WELCOME inner circle defector Jang Jin-sung. 8 What’s On 9 Wednesday 14 May TO THE 2014 Following a year where stories of 9 Thursday 15 May surveillance and gender dominated 10 Friday 16 May the public discourse, writers will 14 Saturday 17 May debate the merits of privacy and 21 Sunday 18 May deliver a powerhouse discussion 27 Family Day on the position of women. 29 Workshops WRITERS 45 Biographies 74 Index Music’s powers of narration will wow 75 Booking and Festival Information in three special performance events, 77 Booking Form FESTIVAL as well as at a session in memory 81 Timetable of Hello Sailor’s Dave McArtney, chaired by Karyn Hay. The brilliance of Jane Austen will be honoured in the CONTACT DETAILS one woman play Austen’s Women and 58 Surrey Crescent, Suite 3, Level 2, we’ll send 30 strangers out to create Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, tales of the night on a Midnight Run Phone +64 (0)9 376 8074 with performer, poet and playwright Fax +64 (0)9 376 8073 Inua Ellams. THE ONLY PLACE TO BE Email: [email protected] Website: writersfestival.co.nz A WORD FROM THE There are exclusive opportunities FESTIVAL DIRECTOR to be entertained by loved writers FESTIVAL TRUST BOARD Nicky Pellegrino and Sarah-Kate Lynch at Toto; take tea with novelists Carole Beu, Erika Congreve, , and Nicola Legat, Phillipa Muir, or go awol over lunch Mark Russell, Sarah Sandley (Chair), with explorer Huw Lewis-Jones at Delina Shields, Peter Wells, the Langham; and hang out at hot Josephine Green (Ex Officio) Auckland joint Ostro with Michelin- starred chef Josh Emett. FESTIVAL TEAM

Anne O’Brien, Festival Director The Great Kiwi Classic book club This world is full of great stories and Jennifer Duval-Smith, Marketing will re-consider ground breaking so will the Aotea Centre be in May as & Development Manager novel The Bone People, thirty years we welcome some of the world’s best Mel Weeks, Festival Administrator after publication; will storytellers to our Festival stage. Phil Evans, Production Manager announce the inaugural winner of Eleanor Congreve, Associate Producer the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize and the Penny Hartill, Publicist Alice Walker, Alexander McCall Festival introduces new, free Family Emily Knecht, Intern Smith, , Irvine Welsh, Day events, for our younger audience, Sandi Toksvig, Lloyd Jones, including live drawing, storytelling A.M. Homes, John Marsden, and a reading of The Little Yellow Digger , Tim Finn, , by author . Michael Leunig, Camilla Lackberg and Sir Ray Avery line up alongside There really is no place else to be in fellow novelists, poets, scientists, May but here with us – come along journalists, adventurers, architects, and get the full story. artists, filmmakers and musicians to help us discover the world anew.

A light will be shone around the globe including on Egypt, Australia, Everest, China and the very fascinating North Korea which is examined both through the Pulitzer Anne O’Brien 3 A WORD FROM THE CHAIR PLATINUM PATRONS CELEBRATING Betsy & Michael Benjamin Erika & Robin Congreve Carol & Gerard Curry THE Josephine & Ross Green THE 2014 Dame Rosie & Michael Horton WRITTEN The James Wallace Arts Trust FESTIVAL PROGRAMME GOLD PATRONS John Barnett The Auckland Writers Festival brings WORD Margaret Casey & Ivan Connell extraordinary writers and thinkers Stephanie & John Clark from around the world together with Barbie & Paul Cook you, our audience, to celebrate the joy Dale D’Rose of reading and ideas. This year we are Di & Graeme Edwards joined by over 150 writers from Dame Jenny Gibbs New Zealand and around the world Jo & Terry Gould for five days of entertaining and A WORD FROM THE MAYOR Penny & Rod Hansen invigorating programming, coming Dayle & Chris Mace to a close on Sunday 18 May with a Pip Muir & Kit Toogood session to honour one of New Zealand’s Georgina & Jolyon Ralston greatest writers, Patricia Grace. We are Maria Renhart delighted to continue to engage with Jenny & Andrew Smith future audience members through a Fiona & William Stevens two day schools’ programme and for GET Lady Tait the first time we are also offering a day Michael Robinson & Tiare Tolks of events for younger children with Susan & Gavin Walker our inaugural Family Day. The Board Welcome to the Auckland Writers Douglas White and staff are passionately committed Festival 2014. In its 14th year, our Gavin Scott & Shan Wilson to ensuring that the Festival continues annual literary festival has a stunning to thrive and I work with an amazing line-up, including our own Booker SILVER PATRONS THE FULL group of professionals on the Board Prize winning Aucklander Eleanor and a small, excellent staff. This core Catton. She is joined by more than 150 Clare & Brian Bradley team expands significantly with a world-class local and international Alastair Carruthers & Peter Gordon band of 70 plus volunteers every year. writers whose talks, debates and Antonia Fisher & Stuart Grieve I would like to take this opportunity readings will stimulate, invigorate David Flacks & Adina Halpern to thank them all. Finally, on behalf and entertain your minds. The writers Dave Gibson & Pip Greenwood of the Board, I would like express and audiences the Festival attracts Anne & Peter Hinton STORY gratitude to our audience, our writers are testimony to the organisers, the Kate & Ant Howard and our loyal sponsors and funders. event’s track record and Auckland’s Jillian & James Macdonald growing renown as an events city. It is Mary Peters

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BOOK BEFORE 14 MAY TICKETMASTER.CO.NZ FOR EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT 0800 111 999 6 7 CUT AND PASTE: 03 FREE EVENT WHAT’S DIGITAL ART LIVE SCHOOLS WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ON EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 14 MAY 15 MAY IMPERIAL WORLD: THURSDAY 15 MAY – MONDAY 14 JULY THE POLITICS LEVEL 2, AOTEA CENTRE OF BOOK PRIZES Cut and Paste is a refreshing THE exhibition that mixes play, art and PUBLIC LECTURE: literature. Using the metaphor of a scrapbook, this interactive work ENGAGING OUR YOUNG READERS FESTIVAL invites the audience to select words 01 02 from New Zealand poems. These Every year the Festival presents two SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL EVENT FLAVOURS SERIES words become a trigger for a digital days of dedicated programming poetry lexicon, creating a brand for intermediate and secondary APRIL 8, 15, 22 & 29, 5.30–6.30PM new poem that will appear on the students before the main THE UNIVERSITY ADVENTURES ON ICE: WAITEMATA ROOM, 3RD FLOOR screen. The underlying message of programme gets underway. AUCKLAND CENTRAL LIBRARY artist Jenna Gavin’s work is that the OF AUCKLAND LUNCH WITH nature of creativity is new concepts In 2014 over 3,500 students (aged THURSDAY MAY 15 – 5.00–6.00PM The Auckland City Central Library stemming from existing ideas. 10–17) will celebrate the written word FESTIVAL DEBATE: HUW LEWIS-JONES OLD CHORAL HALL, LECTURE THEATRE 2 presents four one-hour free sessions Exhibition will be officially opened at in all its forms with national and 7 SYMONDS STREET introducing this year’s guest writers. 5.30pm on Thursday 15 May. All welcome. international stars: Eleanor Catton PRIVACY IS AN Grab a complimentary glass of wine (NZ), Ted Dawe (NZ), The Etherington This year the Man Booker Prize – the and a nibble and settle in to hear local Brothers (England), Cornelia Funke OUTDATED CONCEPT self-styled “most important literary booklovers cast their eye over the PUBLIC BOOK LAUNCH (Germany), Paula Green (NZ), award in the English-speaking Festival’s line-up. (NZ), Lloyd Jones (NZ), world” – is open to American authors FRIDAY 16 MAY – 5.30–7.00PM (NZ), John Marsden (published in the UK) for the first AUCKLAND CENTRE (Australia), Melinda Szymanik (NZ), time. British authors are outraged, 385 QUEEN STREET PUBLIC PROGRAMME Grace Taylor (NZ), Benny Tipene (NZ) THURSDAY 15 MAY – 12.00–2.15PM warning of the prospect of fewer and Trygve Wakenshaw (NZ). Tickets WAITEMATA ROOM, THE LANGHAM nominations for Commonwealth WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SUNDAY 18 MAY Otago University Press invites all comers available through schools. For information on novels. But they forget that, AOTEA CENTRE, AUCKLAND ART GALLERY to celebrate the launch of Siobhan the 2014 programme on 14–15 May go to notwithstanding Eleanor Catton’s When Huw Lewis-Jones is not in AND CATERED EVENT VENUES Harvey’s book Cloudboy, winner of writersfestival.co.nz/schools-programme. success last year, the majority WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – 8.00–9.30PM Cornwall publishing books on the 2013 Kathleen Grattan Prize. of novels from Commonwealth ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE explorers and their hair-raising Over five days the Festival will Since 2009 10,000+ students have had countries are already ineligible expeditions, he’s off on adventures present more than 100 events this unique Festival experience which because they are not published in When is it ever okay to curtail a himself, most recently to the Arctic showcasing the talents of 150 is designed to inspire a love of reading the UK. Should the tastes of the UK FAMILY DAY citizen’s freedom? At a time when and Antarctica. Youthful, energetic speakers, including writers, poets, and ideas. market still dictate what’s important the war over privacy and the need and quite possibly mad, Lewis-Jones journalists, historians, scientists, in the international literary world? PROGRAMME for surveillance rages and younger shares tales of derring-do over a three- actors, musicians and filmmakers. Rich opportunities. Keen young generations seemingly embrace the course-meal with a complimentary From conversations, debates, lectures, SUNDAY 18 MAY Free entry. minds meet authors, receive books, 0era of public disclosure about glass of Crossroads wine, in the concerts, performances, readings HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE attend sessions and workshops. anything and everything, four relative safety and comfort of the and workshops there’s something for Low cost tickets. Subsidised tickets are speakers put and defend their Langham Hotel, Auckland. everyone in a sparkling five days of In a new initiative for the Festival, $12 covering four 45 minute sessions. positions. Expect cross-examinations, enlightenment and good times. For we present five 30-minute sessions Subsidised transport. Cash grants rebuttals and fur to fly. The debaters Standard $95; Patrons $76. Tables of 10 the full programme see pages 9–31. for children aged 5–10 and another are available to assist with school are: Iraqi/English scientist Jim $855. To be seated with friends contact the five short story-reading sessions travel costs. Al-Khalili, Dutch historian Frank Festival office on [email protected] for the under-5s. Presenters include Dikotter, New Zealand privacy expert comics duo The Etherington Brothers, Consider joining us to enrich young lives and Bob Stevens and British broadcaster, illustrator Paul Beavis, storyteller develop the next generation of booklovers by writer and comedian Sandi Toksvig. Jan Blake, poet Paula Green, writer supporting the Schools Programme. Contact Keeping the joust clean will be Betty Gilderdale and Storylines us to discuss event partnership: 09 376 8074 journalist Guyon Espiner. Much-Loved Award winner Jenny or [email protected] Hessell. Sessions for ages 5–10 are Earlybird $35; Standard $40; free but ticketed. Book early to Patrons $32; Students $20. avoid disappointment. For the full programme see page 27–28. 8 9 04 06 gives unparalleled insights into 09 Glancey joins The University of SPECIAL EVENT the workings of one of the world’s SPECIAL EVENT Auckland architecture lecturer Bill most secret regimes, about which McKay to discuss life-affirming FRIDAY AN INTERIOR LIFE: we periodically receive news of architecture and his keen interest NEW ZEALAND executions, widespread repression A TASTE OF ITALY: in trains, planes and the destructive 16 MAY ROD MOSS and nuclear ambition. In discussion power of large-scale retail design. LISTENER GALA NIGHT with John Sinclair, and with a LUNCH WITH Supported by New Zealand Institute of translator. Supported by the Asia Architects and the Sir Trust. TRUE STORIES TOLD NZ Foundation. NICKY PELLEGRINO LIVE: TRUTH AND LIES 08 11 05 THE LIFE AND ART FRIDAY MAY 16 – 10.00–11.00AM PETER MCLEAVEY LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE OF LYNLEY DODD THE ORPHAN Australian painter Rod Moss has FRIDAY MAY 16 – 12.00–2.15PM MASTER’S SON: written two compelling memoirs – TOTO RESTAURANT, AUCKLAND The Hard Light of Day and One Thousand ADAM JOHNSON Cuts – the former winning the Prime The Food of Love Cookery School is Nicky Minister’s Literary Award. Both take Pellegrino’s latest lip-smacking novel, readers into the Australian interior, to celebrating food, friendship and amore the Northern Territory’s MacDonnell FRIDAY MAY 16 – 11.30AM–12.30PM in the luscious setting of Sicily. Join Ranges and the Arrernte culture, but LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Pellegrino for a specially crafted three- FRIDAY MAY 16 – 1.00–2.00PM also to the violence, alcoholism and course Italian menu lifted from the pages LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE THURSDAY MAY 15 – 7.00–8.30PM ill-health that decimates Aboriginal of her novel, with a complimentary glass In a tribute to one of this country’s ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE communities still. Moss weaves a of Crossroads wine at Auckland Italian visual arts champions, major artists Hairy Maclary has been read and powerful narrative, which ultimately institution Toto. Introduced by Sarah- Yvonne Todd and John Reynolds loved by millions since he first Back by popular demand, the celebrates the transformative Kate Lynch. A fine way to end the week. FRIDAY MAY 16 – 10.00–11.00AM gather with Peter McLeavey trotted out from Donaldson’s Dairy Festival’s heart-stopping start to power of whitefella and blackfella ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE biographer Jill Trevelyan to honour in 1983. The endearing mutt’s creator, three days of action-packed public friendship. Chaired by Stephanie Standard $95; Patrons $76. Tables of 8 this extraordinary art dealer, who Lynley Dodd, is the subject of a programming returns. Eight writers Johnson. Supported by Australia Council $684. To be seated with friends contact the Is truth stranger than fiction when it’s has nurtured the major talents of recent biography written by Finlay deliver a seven-minute true story, for the Arts. Festival office on [email protected] focussed on that strange and secretive late twentieth and early twenty- Macdonald. Michele A’Court speaks propless and scriptless, inspired by land north of the 38th parallel? Join first-century New Zealand. Session with Dodd about her remarkable the theme Truth and Lies. Share the American novelist and Pulitzer includes documentary footage of success and the world from which unpredictable ride with Nigerian Prize winner Adam Johnson for a -based McLeavey. Chaired Hairy and his motley crew emerged to poet and performer Inua Ellams, 07 discussion of his exquisitely written by Auckland Art Gallery Director 10 take on, among others, Scarface Claw, Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi, satirical novel The Orphan’s Master’s Rhana Devenport. the toughest tom in town. NZ photographer , Son, in which protagonist and party Canadian award-winner Lawrence DEAR LEADER factotum Jun Do tries to get on in Kim WHY ARCHITECTURE Hill, Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Jong-il’s North Korea, while falling A.M. Homes, best-selling novelist for an actress called Sun Moon. In ( AND TRAINS, PLANES Sarah-Kate Lynch, internationally conversation with Simon Wilson. loved writer and lawyer Alexander Supported by Platinum Patrons Carol AND SHOPS) MATTER McCall Smith and trainspotting & Gerard Curry. Scot Irvine Welsh. Managing the mayhem in the compere seat, the unflappable Carol Hirschfeld. FRIDAY MAY 16 – 11.30AM–12.30PM Earlybird $35; Standard $40; ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Patrons $32; Students $20. The versatile Jang Jin-sung defected to South Korea having served as a FRIDAY MAY 16 – 1.00–2.00PM counter-intelligence officer and poet ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE laureate for North Korea’s former dictator Kim Jong-il. In his newly Former architecture critic for The published memoir Dear Leader he Guardian and The Independent, Jonathan 10 11 12 14 16 things in the horror genre that you whose latest and ninth novel, The session Galloway’s readings from the FREE EVENT never knew were there’. Knox joins Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, is labelled bookare interspersed with passages FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION journalist David Larsen to discuss “swampy Floridian lesbian noir” by from Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in MAX GATE A QUESTION OF her inspirations and preoccupations, its author. Supported by Platinum Patron C major. Featuring up-and-coming capturing people and moving them The James Wallace Arts Trust. pianist Gemma Lee. TIES THAT BIND CIVILISATIONS and how she manages her invisible monsters. elizabethknox.com Earlybird $30; Standard $35; Patrons $28; 20 Students $17.50. 18 FREE EVENT MIRRORWORLDS 22 FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION FRIDAY MAY 16 – 2.30–3.30PM SPECIAL EVENT LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 16 – 1.00–1.50PM FRIDAY MAY 16 – 4.00–5.00PM THE DARK SIDE THE MIDNIGHT RUN LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE The year is 1928 and the famous ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE novelist Thomas Hardy is dying in The dense and sometimes dangerous the upstairs room of Max Gate, the The West has shown stunning ease family unit is the theme for this house he built in his beloved Dorset. in claiming superiority over the Arab session of four readings from Downstairs, Hardy’s high-powered world, which it casts as a region of FRIDAY MAY 16 – 5.30–6.30PM accomplished writers A.M. Homes, literary friends are locked in a bitter conflict as well as of questionable LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Anne Kennedy, Vincent O’Sullivan tussle with his local supporters. cultural practices. Such views are and Jenny Pattrick, introduced by Who can rightfully claim the great often founded on assumptions which German author of the “gorgeously Paula Morris. man’s remains? Who knew the great are challenged by Iraq-born scientist FRIDAY MAY 16 – 4.00–4.50PM gothic” (The Times) series Jim Al-Khalili (author of a history of FRIDAY MAY 16 – 6.00PM–MIDNIGHT man best? And what of the secrets LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Mirrorworld, Cornelia Funke is Arabic science), Egyptian writer and AUCKLAND CITY of Max Gate? In a celebration of his much-loved by young adult fantasy campaigner Yasmine El Rashidi and Explore the dark side with Ben Atkins, and adventure readers. She examines new novel, will Barcelona, Milan, Florence, London – 13 Iranian-born scholar of religions Reza Paul Cleave, Camilla Lackberg and imagination and storytelling and introduce rehearsed readings of now it’s Auckland’s turn. Set out on Aslan in this session exploring of the Eimear McBride in four short readings reads from her other-worldy work. scenes from Max Gate by five actors, a joyful gallivant as one of only 30 Arab world, chaired by Susie Ferguson. from writers who mine the underbelly, Chaired by Anna Smith. Supported CALL ME MAESTRO prepared under the direction of people in the Midnight Run, with introduced by Graham Beattie. by Goethe Institute New Zealand. Murray Lynch. Nigerian-born poet, playwright and adventurer Inua Ellams and his 17 team of creatives. Participants take 15 19 21 a pre-planned, well-lit tour of the SPECIAL EVENT city – eating, playing games, visiting FREE EVENT WAKING venues, writing poetry and generally FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION CHOOSE LIFE having fun in public. Are you game? ELIZABETH KNOX YOUNG CLARA A British Council Series Event. FRIDAY MAY 16 – 2.30–3.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE LANDSCAPES Standard: $30. (Starting point confirmed prior to event). “A gripping page-turner” is how The Telegraph described Lucy Hughes- Hallett’s The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War, which has won the Samuel Johnson, Costa FRIDAY MAY 16 – 5.30–6.30PM and Duff Cooper non-fiction awards. FRIDAY MAY 16 – 4.00–5.00PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 16 – 5.30–6.45PM D’Annunzio – Italian poet, nationalist LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE demagogue and serial seducer – was FRIDAY MAY 16 – 2.30–3.20PM Edinburgh king of grimy dialogue among Europe’s most fascinating and LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE An extraordinary imagination and and narrative Irvine Welsh, whose German Clara Schumann was a outrageous early twentieth-century sense of creative play are at the heart debut novel Trainspotting was made virtuoso pianist married to the starry figures. When he made himself Michelle de Kretser, Shonagh Koea, of Elizabeth Knox’s writing, most into a movie of the same name, composer Robert Schumann. Scottish ruler of a renegade city-state, he and Alice Miller read work recently seen in last year’s Mortal talks about his taste for trangression writer Janice Galloway’s perceptive opened the way for the dictators who that explores landscapes both interior Fire, a finalist in the LA Times Best and darkness with broadcaster novel Clara explores the pianist’s would follow. Hughes-Hallett is in and exterior, introduced by Festival Book Awards and Wake, a literary Noelle McCarthy. Prepare to be singular life and her romance with conversation with Geraint Martin. co-founder Peter Wells. horror novel that ‘shows you riveted by one of the genre’s finest, her deeply troubled other half. In this

12 13 23 family and friends in a tribute to 27 29 identity and its economic and social SPECIAL EVENT Dave McArtney’s music and a salute FREE EVENT foundation. Supported by Auckland Art to his posthumously published SPEAKERS’ CORNER Gallery Toi o Tämaki. memoir Gutter Black, the definitive SATURDAY DIRTY WARS AN EVENING account of the man, the bands he played in and the music that rocked 17 MAY EATING WITH ALEXANDER a nation. Presented in association 31 with APRA/AMCOS. Supported by OURSELVES STUPID FREE EVENT MCCALL SMITH HarperCollins. SPEAKERS’ CORNER NOT OUR PROBLEM? 25 SATURDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–11.00AM SPECIAL EVENT 26 LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE THE DEMOLITION OF Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars is a MAY WE BE FORGIVEN: shocking expose of America’s covert SATURDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–10.30AM FRIDAY MAY 16 – 7.00–8.15PM THE CENTURY operations, from Afghanistan to LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE A.M. HOMES Yemen, Somalia and beyond. The book has now been made into an Economist Geoff Simmons, co-author SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.00–11.30AM “You do not have to ladle on the impasto Oscar nominated documentary of Appetite for Destruction, puts the case LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE to make a point about human frailty (Festival screening on Sunday, for treating fake food like cigarettes: or ambitions,” Scottish best-selling see event 77). Journalist Scahill 20 minutes at the podium; 10 minutes Tracey Barnett, author of the novelist Alexander McCall Smith speaks with Toby Manhire about of audience challenge. e-book The Quiet War on Asylum, recently told The Telegraph. In his series the growing reach of America’s argues against New Zealand’s The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency operations abroad and the decision to follow Australia’s lead and The Sunday Philosophy Club and involvement of the White House FRIDAY MAY 16 – 8.30–9.45PM in its treatment of asylum seekers: through his female sleuths, McCall in these activities. 30 LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE (CASH BAR) SATURDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–11.00AM 20 minutes at the podium; 10 Smith spreads gentle wisdom and good WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE minutes of audience challenge. cheer. He spends an evening with fans, Writer and performer Duncan Sarkies in conversation with broadcaster concocts an intriguing cocktail of May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, Jim Mora. A British Council Series Event. 28 AN ENTREPRENEURIAL storytelling, with musician Sean darkly funny tale of a family’s FREE EVENT O’Brien on keyboards and the attempt to pull itself together after 32 Earlybird $35; Standard $40; TALE audience in the driving seat. As you some surprising couplings, a murder SPECIAL EVENT Patrons $32; Students $20. freefall into the world of Sarkies’ new and much, much more perversion MURDER IN REMUERA PETER ALSOP novel The Demolition of The Century besides. One of America’s most prepare to encounter waifs and brilliant writers, A.M. Homes has AUSTEN’S WOMEN strays, lost wives and lost socks. produced a body of work over many 24 years that deftly mines the modern SPECIAL EVENT Standard $40; Patrons $32. condition. Winner of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction, she reads from her book and speaks with NZ GUTTER BLACK writer Paula Morris. Supported by Platinum Patrons Josephine & Ross Green. SATURDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–11.00AM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 10.15–11.15AM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.15–12.25PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Scott Bainbridge’s The Bassett Road Promoting Prosperity is a social history Machine-Gun Murders documents of New Zealand told through the Prepare to fall in love with Jane one of New Zealand’s most infamous art of advertising posters, in the Austen AGAIN as English actor/ crimes. Get the skinny on sly- days before colour photography and playwright Rebecca Vaughan brings grogging, dope-smoking, race- television irrevocably altered the FRIDAY MAY 16 – 7.00–8.00PM 13 crisply observed Austenian fixing and a sex worker called Lola. scene. Lead author Peter Alsop – an LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE heroines to life in this bold theatrical Bainbridge, also known for his true avid collector of early advertising – revisiting. Sit back and acknowledge crime novels, is in conversation with will take the audience on a vibrant Broadcaster Karyn Hay and universal truths as Vaughan Bill Ralston. rediscovery of the pictures that members of Hello Sailor and Pink transforms into Emma Woodhouse, significantly shaped New Zealand’s Flamingos come together with Lizzy Bennet, Mrs Norris and 10 other

14 15 women at critical junctures in their 34 honouring his culture and his 37 39 it tells the story of Te Arepa Santos lives. An Edinburgh Fringe Festival country. Whiting speaks with FREE EVENT navigating his way from adolescence favourite, performed in New Zealand Damian Skinner. SPEAKERS’ CORNER to adulthood. Dawe speaks with for the first time. A British Council A GIRL IS A AN HOUR WITH writer about the novel Series Event. and addresses criticisms that the book HALF-FORMED THING LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB JACQUES ROUBAUD is too racy for its YA audience. Earlybird $30; Standard $35; 36 Patrons $28; Students $17.50. WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES 41 GREAT MODERN FREE EVENT 33 BUILDINGS: SPEAKERS’ CORNER JONATHAN GLANCEY GO NUCLEAR THE TRAGEDY SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.30–12.30PM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 12.00–12.30PM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–2.00PM OF LIBERATION LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Irish writer Eimear McBride burst Journalist Rebecca Macfie, author of One of the senior statesman of onto the literary scene in 2013 when Tragedy At Pike River Mine, alleges that European literature, charming she won the Goldsmiths Prize for a New Zealand culture of state and Frenchman Jacques Roubaud is a ‘fiction at its most novel’. A Girl Is A corporate negligence lies at the heart member of the Oulipo movement Half-Formed Thing has been heralded of the Pike River mine disaster: 20 (others include Italo Calvino and as an instant classic; haunting, SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.45–12.45PM minutes at the podium; 10 minutes Umberto Eco) whose followers SATURDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–1.30PM intense and revelatory. At its heart AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM of audience challenge. create work using constrained LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE is a love story between a brother and writing techniques. A “writer of SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.30–12.30PM a sister, compelling in both its form simmering passions and of secret International architecture critic Activist Maire Leadbeater, author ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE and subject matter. McBride speaks pleasures” (L’Hebdo), Roubaud has and writer Jonathan Glancey goes of Peace, Power & Politics, defends with writer Iain Sharp. 38 been a professor of both poetry and on a visual tour of modern buildings, New Zealand’s refusal to adopt China’s tumultuous twentieth- mathematics and has published telling their stories, assessing their nuclear power in an energy-hungry century history is grippingly across genres. Now in his 80s, he is accomplishments and arguing for world: 20 minutes at the podium; documented in Mao’s Great Famine THE CONQUEST currently in the midst of a memoir their inclusion in an inventory of the 10 minutes of audience challenge. and The Tragedy of Liberation, both 35 project, which includes the work best of the best. Inspired by his book written by the Dutch-born, Hong- FREE EVENT OF EVEREST Mathematics (a novel). Chaired by Modern Architecture: The Structures Kong based historian Frank Dikotter. New Zealand poet Anne French. That Shaped The Modern World. It is groundbreaking storytelling, Supported by Auckland Art Gallery 42 meticulously researched and with A LIFE IN ART: Toi o Tämaki, New Zealand Institute WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES great narrative sweep. Join Dikotter of Archiects and the Sir Miles for his lecture examining one of the 40 Warren Trust. most powerful regimes of our times. FREE EVENT FROM EARTH’S END: ADRIAN KINNAIRD SATURDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–2.00PM INTO THE RIVER ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

Using George Lowe’s original photographs from the 1953 conquest SATURDAY MAY 17 – 11.30–12.30PM of Everest, explorer and historian UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Huw Lewis-Jones plots the legendary ascent. One of the hit sessions of Te Papa’s is perhaps one of the 2013 Hay Festival, this visual SATURDAY MAY 17 – 1.15–2.15PM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–2.00PM the most viewed examples of the spectacle allows the audience to AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM remarkable art and carving of Dr. retrace the steps of the triumphant UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Cliff Whiting ONZ (Te Whänau-a- expedition and capture the drama Adrian Kinnaird’s book From Apanui). After winning a secondary and the personalities involved. Controversy has somewhat obscured Earth’s End: The Best of New Zealand school arts competition sixty years Supported by Platinum Patrons Dame the achievements of Ted Dawe, author Comics chronicles the history of a ago, Whiting has gone on to have Rosie & Michael Horton. of Into The River, supreme winner of the marginalised art form. His Festival a rich life in arts and education, 2013 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards. session also champions exemplars of founded in his Maori roots and Dawe’s second award-winning novel,

16 17 local cartooning and comics from the Hear three eminent Australians 46 48 and former New Zealander of the year, developing world accesses capital in forgotten comics boom of the 1950s to fathoming their country’s current FREE EVENT SPECIAL EVENT Shaun Hendy, about the big scientific a global economy. Jackley co-founded the graphic novelists of today. Supported state. Has the luck run out? FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION posers: the confounding glories, the the world’s first peer-to-peer (p2p) by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki. Cartoonist Michael Leunig, writer challenges, the future. Supported by the non-profit microlending website Kiva, John Marsden and artist Rod Moss AUSTEN’S WOMEN Royal Society of New Zealand. which “reframes stories of poverty will be in conversation with MATTERS OF into stories of entrepreneurship” Dr. Felicity Barnes. Supported by and has loaned $306 million to more 43 the Australia Council for the Arts. DISCOVERY than a million people in 73 countries. 50 Chaired by Dr Lee Mathias. Presented SCANDINAVIAN in partnership with Co. ofWomen. INSPIRED BY AUDEN CRIME QUEEN: 45 FREE EVENT 52 CAMILLA LACKBERG SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.45–3.55PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE FREE EVENT BOOK VS FILM FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.20PM Prepare to fall in love with Jane Austen LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE AGAIN as English actor/playwright LIFE STORIES Rebecca Vaughan brings 13 crisply Join photographer Andris Apse, observed Austenian heroines to life SATURDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.00PM psychologist Michael Corballis, poet in this bold theatrical revisiting. Sit LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE Caoilinn Hughes and novelist Charlotte back and acknowledge universal Randall for readings from their latest truths as Vaughan transforms into SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.30PM When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel works with the theme of discovery, Emma Woodhouse, Lizzy Bennet, ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.30PM Dalhousie – Edinburgh philosopher, introduced by Stephanie Johnson. Mrs Norris and 10 other women at UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE amateur sleuth and title character in a critical junctures in their lives. An Swedish crime-writing sensation series of novels by best-selling author Edinburgh Fringe Festival favourite, Camilla Lackberg has sold twelve Scottish author Irvine Welsh has Alexander McCall Smith – turns to SATURDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–4.50PM performed in New Zealand for the first million books and is up there with written film scripts, but not for most of the poet W. H. Auden. For McCall LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 47 time. A British Council Series Event. Stieg Larsson in the Scandi-noir his own books including Trainspotting, SPECIAL EVENT Smith, Auden is the best of guides to pantheon. She is interested, she and he prefers not to. Oscar-nominated a well-lived life. In this session, the Memorists Peter Farrell, Janice Earlybird $30; Standard $35; Patrons says, in “just how horrible people writer David Stevens has created writer expounds in conversation with Galloway and Lloyd Jones join the poet $28; Students $17.50. can be”. She joins lawyer Jonathan award-winning plays and scripts AFTERNOON TEA: poet and Auden lover Harry Ricketts. Siobhan Harvey to read excerpts from Krebs to consider crime writing (including The Sum of Us and Breaker A British Council Series Event. the stories of their lives, introduced by and just precisely what lurks in that Morant), directed the Emmy-Award THE A TEAM Catriona Ferguson. Scandinavian water. Supported by winning television series A Town Like HarperCollins. Alice and published three novels. In 49 conversation with Dominic Corry 51 the pair explore how films and books FREE EVENT 53 differ in telling a story. Can a book SCIENCE AND 44 ever be captured by film? What are the advantages and disadvantages THE BIG QUESTIONS INVESTING IN OUR BOOKER WINNER: THE LUCKY COUNTRY? of each medium? Why and how do THE FUTURE ELEANOR CATTON stories change from one medium to SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–4.00PM the other and do the original creators THE LANGHAM HOTEL, AUCKLAND of the story retain any ownership or is all relinquished when they sell Celebrated New Zealand novelists Fiona their rights? Kidman, Owen Marshall and Jenny Pattrick read from their latest novels (The Infinite Air, Carnival Sky, Heartland SATURDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.00PM respectively) and talk about their literary ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.30PM addictions. What better company as you SATURDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.00PM SATURDAY MAY 17 – 5.30–6.30PM feast on a gorgeous afternoon tea in LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Jim Al-Khalili is one of the world’s UPPER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE the surrounds of the plush Langham science leaders: a physicist, writer, hotel. Chaired by Carole Beu. “Australia is a lucky country, run broadcaster and president of the One of Fast Company’s League The Luminaries is a tale of mystery by second-rate people who share British Humanist Association. In a of Extraordinary Women in set on the wild west coast of Standard $55; Patrons $48. To be seated its luck” wrote the social critic lively hour he speaks with physicist, 2012, American entrepreneur New Zealand. It took out the 2013 with friends contact the Festival office on Donald Horne back in 1964. Science Communication Prize winner Jessica Jackley discusses how the Man Booker Prize and catapulted [email protected] 18 19 its author into stardom. airways, is on her first visit to 57 59 Maori artist Cliff Whiting to reflect on Eleanor Catton appears in an hour New Zealand. She frequently tests SPECIAL EVENT our history, in a conversation chaired of conversation about writing, her mettle on QI and Whose Line Is It by journalist Richard Harman. storytelling and literary success Anyway? and as the chair of The News SUNDAY THE MARSDEN WORLD with broadcaster John Campbell. Quiz on the BBC’s Radio 4, a quickfire WHITE CLOUD: Supported by Chen Palmer. romp through the week’s news. She 18 MAY has also presented one-woman shows TIM FINN 61 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES Don’t miss this wide-ranging, sure- 54 to-be witty and provocative evening with her discussing manners, cross- THE GREAT BLOOD & SKIN dressing, the Boer war and moon AVIAN CHASE: landings. Chaired by Sean Plunket. SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM Supported by Platinum Patrons Erika LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE & Robin Congreve. 58 BRENT STEPHENSON SATURDAY MAY 17 – 8.30–9.45PM Adored by generations of young Earlybird $35; Standard $40; LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE (CASH BAR) readers and one of the world’s most Patrons $32; Students $20. THE COLOR PURPLE: talented YA writers, John Marsden “The island is full of voices,” says ALICE WALKER has had his work, including the Caliban in The Tempest. So is Aotearoa. hugely popular Tomorrow and Ellie SATURDAY MAY 17 – 5.30–6.30PM Join celebrated New Zealand musician series, translated into 11 languages. LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 56 Tim Finn in this show crafted As passionate about education as SPECIAL EVENT with playwright and he is about writing, he runs an SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.15–11.15AM filmmaker Sue Healey. The alchemy alternative school in Australia Referencing biology, history, memoir, AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM of observation, recollection, story and (loose motto: “take care, take risks”). medicine and forensics, Lawrence Hill’s POETRY IDOL song will deliver a potent celebration He takes the stage in conversation Blood: The Stuff of Life is a meditation on a Brent Stephenson, birder of family and a contemplation of what with Paula Morris to talk about his substance that both unites and divides extraordinaire and photographer for it means to be Pakeha. Presented in life and writing in a session for all us. Dr. Sharad Paul’s Skin: A Biography SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM the wonderful Birds of New Zealand: association with Jumpboard Productions. ages. Supported by Australia Council delves into the way we think about ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE A Photographic Guide, takes Festival for the Arts. skin and skin colour. The pair discuss goers on a journey of love, loss, Standard $40; Patrons $32. questions of biology, identity, connection Internationally acclaimed author close calls and rediscoveries in our and separation with microbiologist and poet Alice Walker is best known avian kingdom. From the huia and and 2013 Science Communicator of for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 60 the takahe to the magenta petrel the Year Siouxsie Wiles. SATURDAY MAY 17 – 7.30–10.00PM The Color Purple, but she has written FREE EVENT (Chatham Island taiko), Stephenson LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE (CASH BAR) six other novels, four collections of charts the highs and lows of our short stories, four children’s books local skies. Supported by Auckland Art and volumes of essays and poetry. Gallery Toi o Tämaki. Poetry Idol is our rambunctious, sell- THE TIMES THEY 55 In 2013 she published Cushion in the out slam in which 10 poets, fledglings SPECIAL EVENT Road: Meditation and Wandering as and old hands both, go head-to-head ARE A-CHANGIN’ the Whole World Awakens to Being in for the Festival Champion crown Harm’s Way and World Will Follow and $500, under the guidance of AN EVENING WITH Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers Hot Pink Poet Penny Ashton. This (New Poems). Walker is an activist and year’s judges include Nigerian-UK SANDI TOKSVIG believes that developing compassion performance poet Inua Ellams, is a critical task each one of us must former champion Zane Scarborough undertake. She is in conversation and singer-songwriter Julia Deans. with Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh. Want to compete? To book an Supported by Platinum Patrons Betsy audition on 10 May email the Festival SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM & Michael Benjamin. at [email protected] by 8 May. UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

Earlybird $15; Standard $20. Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow’s SATURDAY MAY 17 – 7.00–8. 15PM (Tickets are a mix of seated and standing book Changing Times is a history ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE on a first come, first served basis). of New Zealand since 1945, a time of transformation and turbulence. Carlyon is joined by documentary Sandi Toksvig, the Danish/British photographer Marti Friedlander and writer, comedian and all round treasure of the page, stage and 20 21 62 of religions and the author of Zealot: 65 67 69 poets and the place of poetry in SPECIAL EVENT The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth FREE EVENT WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES our lives. In this session MCed by and No god but God: The Origins, Broom’s husband Michael Gleissner, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Join AN HOUR WITH poet and judge Sam Hunt and the OSTRO LUNCH WITH him in conversation with Douglas TROUBLE IN MIND FIGURES AND FORM: three finalists will read from their Pratt to divine the myths from the LLOYD JONES work before the inaugural winner JOSH EMETT truths and to examine the modern- is announced. sarahbroom.co.nz day flashpoints where religion and politics collide. 71 64 FREE EVENT SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM VANITY FAIR QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM SUNDAY 18 MAY – 11.00–1.00PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.45–12.45PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE OSTRO RESTAURANT Neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM presents three fascinating case Following on from successes with The Ostro is Auckland’s hot dining studies of disordered minds and In six decades of producing vital and Book of Fame, Hand Me Down World and destination, overlooking the waterfront disobedient bodies – including that imaginative work, the sculptor and Mister Pip, NZ writer Lloyd Jones has and steered by Michelin-starred chef of H.M., the world’s most famous teacher Greer Twiss has explored now published a memoir about his of the moment, Josh Emett. Enjoy a amnesiac – in an hour uncovering a range of subjects, materials and fractured family and their well-kept specially crafted two course lunch the mysteries of the human brain. methods. To celebrate the publication secrets. Set against the devastation of SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM and complimentary glass of wine SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM of the monograph Greer Twiss he post-earthquake , in A LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE in the company of Emett who will LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE speaks about his ever-developing History of Silence Jones goes about re- speak about his food philosophy and practice. Supported by Auckland Art piling his own family’s foundations. Join self-published memoirist his new cookbook CUT. MCed by 66 Gallery Toi o Tämaki. Join him in conversation with the Michelle de Kretser has been lauded Peter Farrell, publishing consultant Lauraine Jacobs. FREE EVENT memoirist Peter Wells. by Hilary Mantel for her formidable Geoff Walker and an author with technique and by others for her experience of self-publishing, Standard $95; Patrons $76. To be seated ability to dazzle. Her latest novel Melinda Szymanik, for an assessment with friends contact the Festival office on TALL TALES 68 is Questions of Travel, a work which of the merits and pitfalls of this [email protected] 70 charts the very different lives of an FREE EVENT modern phenomenon. Chairing is Australian woman and a Sri Lankan GENDER DIVIDES Beattie’s Book Blog author and former man. Exploring issues of connection publisher Graham Beattie. and isolation, the novel garnered THE SARAH BROOM 63 de Kretser the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature POETRY PRIZE THE POLITICS Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold 72 Medal) and the 2013 Prime Minister’s SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.30–12.30PM WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES Literary Award for fiction. Chaired by LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE OF PROPHETS Guy Somerset. Supported by Australia Council for the Arts. ART IN AUSTRALIA Get ready to be compelled by the SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM performances of Nigerian-born ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ROD MOSS playwright and poet Inua Ellams and UK-storyteller Jan Blake as they Gender politics, feminism and unleash their through words sexual violence, not to mention SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM and stories from the Festival stage. twerking, have all been burning UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Both artists have received accolades topics around the world in the SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM for their energy, eloquence and last twelve months. How far have Established by her husband and ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE impact. A British Council Series Event. women really advanced? Or are we friends, the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in fact regressing in a tsunami of honours the free spirit, imagination vacuous social media and celebrity and determination of the poet Sarah Messiahs or prophets they may have SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.15–2.15PM culture? Eleanor Catton, Jessica Broom, who died in 2013 and who been, but the founders of Islam and AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Jackley, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and had two poetry collections published: Christianity were also men whose Sandi Toksvig discuss what’s up with Tigers at Awhitu (2010) and Gleam lives were both more and less political Rod Moss is an Australian painter and Dr. Judy McGregor. (2013). The cash prize, to be awarded than we think. Reza Aslan is a scholar winner of the Prime Minister’s Award annually on the basis of 6–8 poems for The Hard Light of Day, the first of (at least five unpublished), celebrates 22 23 his two memoirs. At the same time 74 76 78 The Voices from Tunis to Damascus. 81 as the Gallery showcases Australian FREE EVENT El Rashidi speaks about the state FREE EVENT art, Moss presents a session on his FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION and fate of her beloved country, and FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION own paintings, informed by the light, SCREW YOU LIVING TREASURE: the realities of life in the Middle East, landscape and spirit of the Australian with Sean Plunket. interior. Supported by Australia Council DOLORES MAD WORLDS MICHAEL LEUNIG PIECES OF for the Arts and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki. 80 HISTORY FREE EVENT 73 THE GREAT THE POWER OF US: KIWI CLASSIC: SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM RAY AVERY LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE THE BONE PEOPLE SUNDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM THE MEMORIAL LECTURE Sarah-Kate Lynch and broadcaster Journey into the chaotic novelistic In 1999, Michael Leunig was declared LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Petra Bagust join forces in a session worlds of inventive writers an Australian Living Treasure. discussing Screw You Dolores, Lynch’s Adam Johnson, Elizabeth Knox, A cartoonist, poet and cultural Rich histories inform the work of funny, touching and wise primer on Carl Shuker and Tim Wilson, commentator, his drawings and Kerry Donovan Brown, Lawrence happinesss. A sassy and attitude-full introduced by Damien Wilkins. philosophies have delighted and Hill, Fiona Kidman and Tina session for all of us who are getting inspired generations and been stuck Makereti. Join the novelists for older and learning not to give a damn. on countless fridges. In conversation readings, introduced by Carole Beu. with writer Kate De Goldi, he talks SUNDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM 77 about his work, his life and latest UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM SPECIAL EVENT titles Holy Fool and The Essential Leunig: 75 Cartoons From A Winding Path. Live ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE After weeks of nominations FREE EVENT on-stage drawing will also feature. and heady conversations the DIRTY WARS: Supported by Australia Council for the Arts. Scientist, inventor, entrepreneur inaugural Great Kiwi Classic has and a New Zealander of the Year, LETTERS OF NOTE THE FILM been found. We begin the session Sir Ray Avery delivers this year’s with Keri Hulme reading from the Michael King Memorial Lecture 79 winning book, her groundbreaking marking the 10th anniversary of the Booker-winning novel The Bone People. historian’s death. One hundred years This will be followed by a giant book on from World War I, the defining UNFINISHED club discussion with Irish novelist event of the twentieth-century, Avery Eimear McBride, New Zealand editor, challenges us to consider what defines REVOLUTION researcher and former university us as New Zealanders in the twenty- lecturer Reina Whaitiri and you, the first century and asks what we must SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 3.30–5.00PM audience. Come armed with your copy do to chart a successful future path. UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE of the text and be ready to enter the Introduced by Rachael King, daughter fray. Chaired by Peter Biggs of the NZ of Michael King. Book Council. Presented in a partnership In the age of email and texts, letter Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty between the Auckland Writers Festival writing is a dying art but letters are Wars: The World Is A Battlefield screens and the NZ Book Council. a delight to receive and to read. Join at the Festival to coincide with the biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett, visit of producer and screenwriter actor and other Jeremy Scahill, who also wrote the SUNDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM New Zealand guests as they read book of the same name. Described LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE letters written by the famous and as “pessimistic, grimly outraged and brilliant, from the collection Letters utterly riveting” by The New York Witness to her own country’s recent of Note (lettersofnote.com). Times, the film argues that America’s revolution, Cairo-based writer clandestine war on terror is now Yasmine El Rashidi writes regularly globally entrenched and largely for The New York Review of Books and unfettered. Festival guest Scahill has published The Battle for Egypt, introduces the film. as well as contributing an essay to the new book Writing Revolution: Earlybird $15; Standard $20.

24 25 85 89 FAMILY DAY POETRY PLAY: MAD COMICS: EVENTS PAULA GREEN THE ETHERINGTON 2014 BROTHERS HONOURED NEW ZEALAND HERALD SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.00–2.30PM WRITER THEATRE EVENTS Children’s poetry champion and SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.00–11.30AM published poet Paula Green makes up FREE EVENTS BUT TICKETED poems on the spot with the help of Madcap UK comics champions SO BOOK QUICKLY! her young audience. Robin and Lorenzo Etherington share adventures in words and pictures in FOR AGES 5–10 front of a live audience.

82 SPECIAL EVENT 83 87 91 PATRICIA GRACE MAD COMICS: PICTURE STORIES: STORYTELLER SUNDAY MAY 18 – 5.30–6.30PM, ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE THE ETHERINGTON PAUL BEAVIS JAN BLAKE

A giant of New Zealand and world Book Prize and the Neustadt BROTHERS literature, Patricia Grace DCNZM, International Prize for Literature. QSO has quietly but powerfully Grace continues to be active in the infused the literary world with literary community, presenting her novels, short stories and children’s work and visiting schools. She lives books all of which speak eloquently in Plimmerton on her ancestral land of the lives of Maori and Pakeha in of Ngäti Toa, near her home marae at Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first Hongoeka Bay, from where we have SUNDAY MAY 18 – 12.00–12.30PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–1.30PM published work Waiariki (1975) was prised her to celebrate a lifetime the first collection of short stories by of outstanding achievement. In SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–10.30AM Live drawing and storytelling from Award-winning British storyteller a Mäori woman writer. Since then conversation with Geoff Walker. the creative talents of Mrs Mo’s Jan Blake enchants her young she has gone on to garner awards Madcap UK comics’ champions Monster author Paul Beavis. audience with tales of far-off lands. and prizes for books including Potiki Note: Under 18s enjoy free entry to this Robin and Lorenzo Etherington share British Council Series Event. (1986), The Sky People (1994), Dogside event but require a ticket, to be booked adventures in words and pictures in Story (2001) and Tu (2004). In 2005 she through Ticketmaster. front of a live audience. won the Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She has been lauded More Family Day events over the page internationally as well as nationally, winning the German Lißeraturpreis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction

26 27 86 90 94 photographer. But while seemingly easy, taking a great photograph is anything but. Art-based photographer HERALD THEATRE STORY READING WITH MRS MO’S MONSTER: EXPLORING THE Harvey Benge published his first WORKSHOPS photobook in 1993; twenty years on FOYER EVENTS KYLE MEWBURN PAUL BEAVIS CREATIVE PROCESS with more than 40 publications to his credit, Benge can spot a great picture FREE READINGS: NO TICKETS REQUIRED WORKSHOP: MICHAEL LEUNIG from a dog. In this workshop he explains the distinction. FOR UNDER 5s 96

84 SUNDAY MAY 18 – 11.05–11.20AM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 1.05–1.20PM THE SHORT STORY WORKSHOPS: $45; LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM FRIDAY MAY 16 – 11.00–12.30PM Kyle Mewburn, author of Melu, A determined monster meets his WORKSHOP: OWEN MARSHALL STORY READING WITH Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!, Seesaw Po and match in an elderly lady called Mrs. OF 40 PARTICIPANTS PER WORKSHOP GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM Old Huhu reads his fun stories to a Mo. Read by Mrs Mo’s Monster author LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE BETTY GILDERDALE young audience. Paul Beavis. 93 Cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet Michael Leunig presents an exploration of the creative 88 92 FACTION process. Join him as he shares his knowledge and experience in an WORKSHOP: LAWRENCE HILL interactive discussion to discover GRANDMA MCGARVEY: STORY READING WITH where the creative process has led FRIDAY MAY 16 – 4.00–5.30PM him over the years and where it GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 10.05–10.20AM JENNY HESSELL KYLE MEWBURN might lead you. Supported by LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE Australia Council for the Arts. The Little Yellow Digger comes Owen Marshall is one of New Zealand’s to the Festival. Hear author foremost exponents of the short story. Betty Gilderdale read this In this workshop he considers the glorious and much-loved tale. 95 possibilities and challenges short FRIDAY MAY 16 – 9.00–10.30 fiction offers, focussing on voice, GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM STORIES WITH structure, character, beginnings LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE and ending. Writing exercises and SUNDAY MAY 18 – 12.05–12.20PM SUNDAY MAY 18 – 2.05–2.20PM PICTURES readings included. Do details make your fiction Jenny Hessell reads from her book Kyle Mewburn, author of Melu, sink or swim? Can you make your WORKSHOP: HARVEY BENGE Grandma McGarvey, winner of this Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!, Seesaw Po and character vivid by the way she ties year’s Storylines Much-Loved Old Huhu reads his fun stories to a a shoelace, makes a pancake or Book Award. young audience. defuses a bomb? Come meet with best-selling Canadian novelist and essayist Lawrence Hill and learn how to seduce your reader with the small stuff. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts. FRIDAY MAY 16 – 2.00–3.30PM GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE

With more than 380 billion photographs taken every year, each telling a story, almost everybody these days considers themselves a

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Patricia Grace DCNZM, QSO is a celebrated New Zealand writer Catriona Ferguson is the chief and one of Maori literature’s most executive of the New Zealand Book Anne French is a poet and former influential figures. She has won many Best known for his print and Council. The Book Council promotes publisher. She currently works in One of Scotland’s most celebrated national and international awards broadcast journalism and his role on the love of books and reading among research funding, advises the Dean contemporary writers, Janice including the Neustadt International television’s The Vote, Guyon Espiner all New Zealanders, and, in particular, of Engineering at The University Galloway’s first novel, The Trick is to Architectural critic, writer and Prize for Literature, widely considered takes up the role of co-presenting aims to introduce communities and of Auckland on strategic research Keep Breathing (1990), is considered broadcaster Jonathan Glancey was the the most prestigious literary prize National’s readers everywhere to New Zealand’s matters and is director of Alta a Scottish contemporary classic. architecture and design editor at both after the Nobel. Morning Report in April 2014. He literary wealth. @catnzbc Capital Partners Ltd. Her latest She is the author of a novel based The Independent (pre 1997) and The is also a contributing writer to the book of poems, The Blue Voyage, on the life of Clara Schumann, two Guardian (1997–2012). He is the best- PAULA GREEN . @guyonespiner SUSIE FERGUSON is nearly finished. acclaimed memoirs, poems and short selling author of Modern Architecture, NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND stories. Galloway is in New Zealand Harrier, Spitfire and Giants of Steam ROBIN AND LORENZO ETHERINGTON MARTI FRIEDLANDER as the inaugural University of Otago and writes regularly for a range of ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND Scottish Writers Fellow. architecture and design publications. galloway.1to1.org Supported by the NZ Institute of Architects and the Sir Miles Warren Trust. JENNA GAVIN @guardianglancey NEW ZEALAND Paula Green is a poet, anthologist, Susie Ferguson is a journalist who has book reviewer, children’s author and worked and travelled extensively in champion of poetry for children. She Stars of the UK festival schools the Middle East and Central Asia. She Widely recognised as one of is the author of two blogs: NZ Poetry circuit, The Etherington Brothers are has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, New Zealand’s foremost artists, Box (for children) and NZ Poetry Shelf British comic book creators. With Pakistan and Lebanon and has also photographer Marti Friedlander is a (for secondary students and adults). Robin writing and Lorenzo drawing visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Companion of the NZ Order of Merit A Treasury of New Zealand Poetry for they’ve created the graphic novels and Israel. From April 2014, she co- and an Arts Foundation Icon. Her AUT Masters student Jenna Gavin Children and The Letter Box Cat and Monkey Nuts and Baggage, several hosts Morning Report on Radio New memoir, Self-Portrait, is a photographic is a digital media artist and creator Other Poems will both be published in comic strips and worked on comics for Zealand National. journey through the twentieth of Cut and Paste. She has made a 2014. nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com the films Transformers, Star Wars and century. martifriedlander.com children’s version of her eight-player Kung Fu Panda. @EtheringtonBros game “Word Wars,” for the Festival’s theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com children’s programme featured at

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She a highly experienced television actors. He has appeared in theatre, the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Bone People, set on the ’s is an investor with the Collaborative journalist and editor. He studied film, television and musical theatre Prize winner Someone Knows My West Coast. She has published Fund, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford English, Architecture, and Economics and his acting and voice work have Name. His latest book Blood: The Stuff short stories and poems in several University, a member of the Council on and has a Masters in International received countless awards. of Life forms the basis for Canada’s book-length collections as well as in Foreign Relations, a World Economic Relations. @rmaharman 2013 Massey Lectures. lawrencehill.com journals and anthologies. Forum Young Global Leader and a SHAUN HENDY Supported by Canada Council for the Arts. contributor to the Wall Street Journal. SIOBHAN HARVEY NEW ZEALAND DES HUNT @jessicajackley jessicajackley.com NEW ZEALAND CAROL HIRSCHFELD Caoilinn Hughes won the 2012 NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Patrick Kavanagh Award for a LAURAINE JACOBS selection of poems from her debut NEW ZEALAND collection Gathering Evidence. After gaining an MA at the Queen’s University of Belfast, she moved to New Zealand where she is studying for a PhD at Victoria University. Professor Shaun Hendy is a @caoilinnhughes In 2013 Siobhan Harvey won the researcher with the MacDiarmid Des Hunt was a teacher for 44 years Kathleen Grattan Award Institute for Advanced Materials and Maori Television executive LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT before publishing his first children’s for Poetry for a collection of poetry Nanotechnology at The University Carol Hirschfeld has worked ENGLAND adventure story, A Friend in Paradise, Former President of the NZ Guild of about her antistic son, Cloudboy. She of Auckland. He has a PhD in physics for more than 25 years as a news in 2002. A series of action adventure Food Writers, Lauraine Jacobs is the is the author of poetry collection and is recognised as an accomplished reporter, presenter, director, producer books with science and conservation food columnist for the New Zealand Lost Relatives (2011) and a volume science communicator across a range and executive producer. She is a themes followed, the latest of which Listener and an internationally of literary criticism Words Chosen of scientific subjects, including passionate advocate for books and is Project Huia (2013). Deshunt.com respected food and wine writer with Carefully (2010) and teaches creative through his blog A Measure of Science. reading and has been a ‘Reading Role eight cookbooks to her credit. Her writing at AUT. @hendysh Model’ Ambassador for NZ Book SAM HUNT food memoir Everlasting Festival was Month. She returns to MC the New NEW ZEALAND published in 2013. laurainejacobs.co.nz KARYN HAY JENNY HESSELL Zealand Listener Gala Night at the @laurainejacobs NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Festival for the third time. Lucy Hughes-Hallett has scooped up @carolhirschfeld the UK’s three most prestigious non- JANG JIN-SUNG fiction prizes – the Samuel Johnson KOREA A.M. HOMES Prize, the Costa Biography Award and UNITED STATES the Duff Cooper Prize – for The Pike, her biography of Italian poet, seducer and proto-fascist Gabriele d’Annunzio. Beloved poet Sam Hunt has been Hughes-Hallett’s previous books are writing and touring the country’s Cleopatra and Heroes. @lucyhh Karyn Hay is a broadcaster and author Former high school English teacher theatres, pubs and schools for over who is well known for hosting Radio Jenny Hessell has written many 40 years. He received the 2012 With Pictures during the 1980s and children’s books including more Prime Minister’s Award for Literary In 2004 Jang Jin-sung defected to as the current co-host of ’s than ten Grandma McGarvey titles Achievement and was made a South Korea after working as a high- evening show. She won the Hubert with illustrator Trevor Pye. In Winner of the 2013 Women’s Prize Companion of the New Zealand Order ranking poet and propaganda Church Best First Book Award in the February 2014 Hessell received for Fiction for the dark comedy May of Merit in 2010. Knucklebones, Poems official for the late North Korean 2001 Montana Book Awards for her the Story Lines Much Loved Book We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes is the 1962–2012 is a collection of his finest leader Kim Jong-il. His insight into first novel, Emerald Budgies. Award for Grandma McGarvey. author of 11 books including the work. samhunt.co.nz this secretive regime forms the core novels This Book Will Save Your Life of his newly published memoir Dear (2006) and Music For Torching (1999), Leader. Supported by the Asia New the controversial The End Of Alice Zealand Foundation.

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Adam Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Anne Kennedy is a novelist, poet and Cartoonist, writer and blogger, Barrister Jonathan Krebs is convenor As a spokesperson for the Campaign An historian of exploration and a Prize in Fiction for his New York Time’s scriptwriter whose work includes the Adrian Kinnaird founded the first of the Law Society’s Criminal Law for Nuclear Disarmament, Maire climber, Huw Lewis-Jones writes best-selling novel The Orphan Master’s award-winning poetry collection The blog dedicated to New Zealand Committee, has served as a Crown Leadbeater played a leading role in and lectures widely about adventure Son which was named by the Wall Darling North (2012), and the novel The comics and popular culture. He recently Prosecutor and is a Visiting Justice advocating for a nuclear-free New and the visual arts. He worked Street Journal as “the single best work of Last Days of the National Costume (2013). published From Earth’s End: The Best of for prisons. All of which gives him Zealand. She is the author of Peace, with pioneering climber George fiction published [in 2013]”. He teaches She teaches fiction and screenwriting New Zealand Comics and is now working a unique three-sided view of the Power and Politics: How New Zealand Lowe on their book The Conquest creative writing at Stanford and is the at the Manukau Institute of on a graphic novel. @adriankinnaird criminal law as defence, prosecution Became Nuclear Free and holds an of Everest, which contains many of author of story collection Emporium Technology and is the 2014 University fromearthsend.blogspot.com and from the Bench. He is also a keen Amnesty International NZ Lifetime Lowe’s original photographs from (2002) and the novel Parasites Like Us of Auckland Resident at the Michael actor and musician. Achievement Award for her work in the legendary first ascent in 1953. (2003). Supported by Platinum Patrons King Writers’ Centre. ELIZABETH KNOX human rights. Supported by Platinum Patrons Dame Carol & Gerard Curry. NEW ZEALAND CAMILLA LACKBERG Rosie & Michael Horton. @polarworld FIONA KIDMAN SWEDEN GEMMA LEE STEPHANIE JOHNSON NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND ROSEANNE LIANG NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Elizabeth Knox is the author of ten award-winning novels including The With over 12 million copies of her Dame Fiona Kidman is one of this Vintner’s Luck which was translated books sold in 37 different languages Gemma Lee has a Bachelor of Music Stephanie Johnson is an award- country’s leading contemporary into nine languages. She is an and to 55 territories, Swedish crime with Honours in classical piano Roseanne Liang is the writer/director winning writer of novels, short stories writers. She has published widely Arts Foundation Laureate and an mastermind Camilla Lackberg performance from the University of of the indie-hit webseries Flat3. She and poetry and is a founding trustee and won many awards including Officer of the New Zealand Order is carrying on the tradition of Auckland and was a semi-finalist in previously directed the feature film, of the Auckland Writers Festival. She the prestigious Chevalier de l’Ordre of Merit. In 2013 she published two Scandinavian noir in high style. She the inaugural 2013 Wallace National My Wedding and Other Secrets, based launched her last novel, The Writing des Artes et des Lettres and the critically acclaimed books: Mortal Fire writes contemporary psychological Piano Competition. on her award-winning documentary Class, at the Festival in 2013 and is Légion d’Honneur. Kidman’s latest (shortlisted for the LA Times Book thrillers, the latest of which to be Banana in a Nutshell. currently working on a sequel. novel, which is inspired by the life of Awards) and Wake. @elizabethknoxnz translated into English is Buried MICHAEL LEUNIG Jean Batten, is The Infinite Air(2013). elizabethknox.com Angels. camillalackberg.com AUSTRALIA MURRAY LYNCH LLOYD JONES fionakidman.com Supported by HarperCollins. NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND SHONAGH KOEA RACHAEL KING NEW ZEALAND DAVID LARSEN NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Michael Leunig is a cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet who Theatre director Murray Lynch An accomplished novelist and has been declared a national living has worked at nearly every major essayist, Lloyd Jones’ best known Shonagh Koea has published treasure in his native Australia. professional theatre in New Zealand works include Commonwealth Rachael King is the Literary Director numerous short story collections David Larsen is a freelance journalist His work appears regularly in since the 1970s and was the head of Prize winner and Man Booker Prize of the Christchurch Writers’ Festival and novels, as well as the memoir The and critic who ranges across the arts the Melbourne Age and the Sydney acting and directing at Toi Whakaari: shortlisted Mister Pip. He is also the and author of Magpie Hall (2009), Kindness of Strangers. Koea’s subject and cultural landscape writing about Morning Herald. Leunig’s most recent NZ Drama School. Since 2010 he has author of The Book of Fame, Here at the The Sound of Butterflies (2006) and Red matter ranges in focus, with male and books, film and music. He is a regular publications are The Essential Leunig been Director of Playmarket, the End of the World and Hand Me Down Rocks (2012). She is the daughter of the female roles and relationships playing contributor to the New Zealand Listener (2012) and Holy Fool (2013). Supported New Zealand playwrights’ agency World. In 2013 he published his first distinguished New Zealand historian a key part in her narratives. 2014 and Metro. @leaflemming by the Australia Council for the Arts. and advisory organisation. work of memoir, A History of Silence. Michael King who died in 2004. sees the publication of a new novel leunig.com.au rachael-king.com @rachelking70 Landscape with Solitary Figure.

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Hugely popular Sarah-Kate Lynch Toby Manhire is an Auckland-based Geraint Martin is the CEO of the Alexander McCall Smith is one of Bill McKay is a senior architecture Jim Mora hosts Afternoons on Radio is the author of much loved novels columnist and blogger for the New Counties-Manukau District Health the world’s most prolific and adored lecturer in the School of Architecture NZ National and has presented and including Dolci di Love and The Zealand Listener and The New Zealand Board and the Chair of the Auckland authors. He was a professor of and Planning at The University of written or (co-written) many television Wedding Bees and a memoir, Stuff It! Herald and a Guardian correspondent. Philharmonia Orchestra. Alongside Medical Law until the publication Auckland and an active writer, critic and programmes from documentaries A Wicked Approach to Dieting. She is He served as comment editor for the his health management expertise and of the universally adored No. 1 researcher with a focus on architectural to reality television, including the a regular magazine travel writer and Guardian for three years and edited love of music, he has a strong interest Ladies’ Detective Agency series history. He regularly writes for popular Massey Ferguson animated columnist and has just published The Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution in European history and literature. which sold over twenty-five million Architecture NZ and in 2009 was awarded TV series and Stains Down Drains. Screw You Dolores, which celebrates and A New World Order. @toby_etc cmdnbceoblog.wordpress.com copies. His latest works include the New Zealand Institute of Architects taking control of one’s life at 50. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, (NZIA) President’s Award in recognition PAULA MORRIS @sarahkatelynch sarah-katelynch.com JOHN MARSDEN LEE MATHIAS What W.H. Auden Can Do For You, of services to architecture. NEW ZEALAND / ENGLAND AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND The Forever Girl and Trains and Lovers. REBECCA MACFIE alexandermccallsmith.com KYLE MEWBURN NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NOELLE MCCARTHY IRELAND

Paula Morris (Ngäti Wai) writes John Marsden has published Dr Lee Mathias ONZM is a business novels, short stories and fiction more than 40 books and won every owner, consultant, educator and for younger readers. She teaches Christchurch-based journalist major writing award in Australia for board director with a wealth of Kyle Mewburn has published over 20 creative writing and is currently Rebecca Macfie is a senior writer with young people’s fiction. His landmark private and public experience, children’s books in nine countries. writer-in-residence at the University the New Zealand Listener and in a 26 Tomorrow series is recognised as the particularly in the health sector. Irish broadcaster Noelle McCarthy is He won the 2013 NZ Post Children’s of Sheffield. Her books include 2012 year career in journalism has won most popular book series for young She is a member of the Institute of a familiar voice on Radio New Zealand Choice Award for Melu and the NZ NZ Post Book Award fiction winner over a dozen media awards. She is the adults ever written in Australia. Directors and the Chair of women’s where she hosts the Summer Noelle Post Children’s Book of the Year for Rangatira and Hene and the Burning author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine, Marsden is also a teacher and the entrepreneurial network Co. show as well as standing in for regular the picture book Old Hu-Hu. His Harbour (2013). paula-morris.com a dramatic account of a disaster that founder of an alternative school ofWomen. leemathias.com presenters on other programmes. She other titles include Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! shook New Zealand and the world. for Years 1–10. johnmarsden.com.au has wide cultural interests and has Yuck!, Duck’s Stuck! and the popular ROD MOSS @rebeccamacfie Supported by Australia Council EIMEAR MCBRIDE written on books, fashion and the Dinosaur Rescue junior fiction series. AUSTRALIA for the Arts. IRELAND arts. @noellevivan kylemewburn.com TINA MAKERETI NEW ZEALAND OWEN MARSHALL JUDY MCGREGOR ALICE MILLER NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Artist and memoirist Rod Moss lives Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl in Alice Springs where the burnished Is A Half-Formed Thing has garnered colours and indigenous culture of Tina Makereti’s short story collection rave reviews and earned her the central Australia inform his work. Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa was Owen Marshall writes across Goldsmiths Prize and a shortlisting Professor Judy McGregor is head of Winner of the BNZ Katherine He won the 2011 Prime Minister’s named one of 2010’s best books by the genres and is widely considered for the Folio Prize. She is now resident the School of Social Sciences and Mansfield Premier Award and the Literary Award for Non-Fiction for New Zealand Listener and Sunday Star one of New Zealand’s finest short in England, but grew up in the West Public Policy at AUT. She is a former Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire The Hard Light of Day and has just Times and won the 2011 Ngä Kupu story writers. He was the recipient of Ireland which provides the setting Equal Employment Opportunities Prize, Alice Miller writes poetry, fiction published his follow up, One Thousand Ora Maori Book Awards Fiction Prize. of the Prime Minister’s Award for for the novel. Commissioner with the New Zealand and essays. She has studied creative Cuts. rodmoss.com Supported by the Her first novel, Where the Rekohu Fiction in 2013 and a CNZM in 2012. Human Rights Commission and writing and her work has appeared in Australia Council for the Arts. Bone Sings, is published in 2014. His latest novel is Carnival Sky. has authored or edited seven books, The Boston Review, Landfall, Oxford Poetry tinamakereti.com @tinamakereti owenmarshall.net.nz including four journalism texts. and The American Scholar. Miller’s first book of poems is The Limits. ackmiller.com 56 57 CARL NIXON JENNY PATTRICK SEAN PLUNKET CHARLOTTE RANDALL JACQUES ROUBAUD ZANE SCARBOROUGH NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND FRANCE NEW ZEALAND

Carl Nixon is the author of three Treasured New Zealand novelist Sean Plunket is an award-winning Charlotte Randall’s first novel A senior statesman of European Zane Scarborough is a member of novels, a collection of short stories Jenny Pattrick’s first two books The broadcast and print journalist. He has Dead Sea Fruit won the Reed Fiction literature and world poetry, Jacques the South Auckland Poet’s Collective and seven acclaimed plays. He is Denniston Rose (2003) and Heart of Coal worked as a news reporter, political Award and the 1996 Commonwealth Roubaud is a leading member of and a manager for Attitude, which published in New Zealand and (2004) are among New Zealand’s best correspondent and commentator and Writers’ Regional Prize for Best First Oulipo (the gathering of writers and works nationally with teenagers on Germany and has won awards for his selling novels and have been followed for 14 years co-presented the national Book. She has since gone on to win mathematicians which seeks new issues around drugs, alcohol, sex, short stories and been shortlisted for by several more bestsellers. Her latest breakfast show Morning Report before numerous awards for her beautifully structures for writing) alongside Italo depression, suicide and social media. several major international awards. book, Heartland, is published in April moving to commercial radio in 2011 crafted fiction and has just published Calvino, Umberto Eco and Georges In 2013 he won the Auckland Writers His latest title is The Virgin and the 2014. jennypattrick.com where he currently hosts morning The Bright Side of My Condition (2013). Perec. His recent work Mathematics (a Festival’s Poetry Idol event. Whale (2013). carlnixon.co.nz radio talkback for RadioLIVE. novel) is part of a major memoir project. SHARAD PAUL @seanplunket JOHN REYNOLDS IAIN SHARP JENNI OGDEN INDIA / NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND DUNCAN SARKIES NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND DOUGLAS PRATT NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Dr Sharad Paul is a senior lecturer in John Reynolds is one of this Poet and librarian Iain Sharp Jenni Ogden holds a PhD in skin cancer/surgery at the Universities country’s foremost painters and Multi-talented Duncan Sarkies is a emigrated from Glasgow when he psychology and writes non-fiction of Queensland and Auckland. He Professor Douglas Pratt is the printmakers. His award-winning screenwriter, playwright, novelist, was eight and works as a manuscripts and fiction with a psychological was a finalist for ‘New Zealander of Convenor of Religious Studies at work has been exhibited widely stand-up comic and short story librarian at the Auckland Central or medical theme. Her latest book, The Year’ and won the NZ Medical the University of and has at home and overseas, including writer. He wrote the hit black comedy Public Library. He has published Trouble in Mind, documents her Association’s highest award in 2012. taught at numerous universities at the 2006 Sydney Biennale which film Scarfies, has penned Flight of the four volumes of poetry, and books on international work with patients He has written three novels, Cool Cut, worldwide. His particular interests featured Clouds, a work made up Conchords episodes, toured shows sailing training, Charles Heaphy and suffering from unusual and often To Kill a Snow Dragonfly and The Kite include Christianity, Islam, interfaith of 7,073 canvasses painted with internationally and written two the treasures of Auckland’s libraries. incredible brain injuries. Flyers and the non-fiction work Skin, A relations and fundamentalism, ‘New Zealandisms’. novels Two Little Boys (2008) and jenniogden.com Biography (2013). sharadpaul.com and he is co-editor of Understanding The Demolition of the Century (2013). CARL SHUKER Interreligious Relations (2013). HARRY RICKETTS NEW ZEALAND VINCENT O’SULLIVAN NICKY PELLEGRINO NEW ZEALAND JEREMY SCAHILL NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND BILL RALSTON UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND

Carl Shuker pushes boundaries of Harry Ricketts is a poet, biographer, style and character, provocatively Vincent O’Sullivan is New Zealand’s The author of seven best-selling editor, anthologist, critic, academic, Jeremy Scahill is the National Security mixing elements of satire, nihilism, Poet Laureate. He has long been one novels, Nicky Pellegrino is a Bill Ralston has been a journalist literary scholar and cricket writer. Correspondent for The Nation, an and horror in his novels. In 2006 he of this country’s most significant freelance journalist and the editor and broadcaster in television, radio, Best known for his biographies of independent weekly politics and was awarded the Prize in Modern literary figures as a writer of poetry, of the Herald on Sunday’s book pages. print and online, including as news Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen culture magazine, and author of the Letters for his first novel, The Method short stories, novels, biographies, Her work has been widely translated and current affairs head at Television British First World War poets, his international bestseller Blackwater: Actors ,and has recently published plays and as an editor and pre- and has a strong international New Zealand and as editor of Metro. last collection of poems is Just Then The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful the Middle Eastern vampire novel, eminent scholar. following. In 2013 she published He currently runs a communications (Victoria University Press, 2012). Mercenary Army. His latest book Dirty Anti Lebanon (2013). @carlshuker His latest work, The Families, is a book The Food of Love Cookery School a tale company and writes a column for the Wars: The World Is a Battlefield is the basis carlshuker.com of short stories and his Selected Poems of love and friendship set in Sicily. New Zealand Listener. @billyralston for the Oscar-nominated documentary will be published later this year. @nickypellegrino nickypellegrino.com of the same name. @jeremyscahill

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Geoff Simmons is a researcher for the Dr. Anna Smith teaches children’s Bob Stevens had a background in Grace Taylor is a poet and teaching Artist Yvonne Todd trained in Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet, Morgan Foundation, an independent literature, adolescent fiction and philosophy and management before artist. Her first collection of poetry commercial photography and draws scholar and teacher at The University organisation sponsoring public contemporary ‘supernatural’ texts at qualifying as a lawyer in mid-life. For Afakasi Speaks was published in on techniques from that field in her of Auckland. Her doctorate focussed interest research. Simmons has an the . She has 20 years he has specialised in privacy late 2013. She is co-director of Niu photographic work. Since graduating on empowerment through the work Honours degree in Economics and published work on and law, latterly as a barrister and a writer Navigations Limited and the Rising from Elam she has exhibited widely of five female Pacific poets and she over ten years work experience in Keri Hulme and is interested in the of legal texts. He has also published Voices Youth Poetry Movement and and in 2002 she won the inaugural lectures on the work of Alice Walker the discipline. He is the co-author, relationship between psychoanalysis, poetry and currently describes she won the 2008 Auckland Writers Walters Prize. ervon.com and other Pacific and indigenous with Gareth Morgan, of Appetite for creativity, children’s literature and himself as an out-of-work actor. Festival Poetry Idol competition. writers. Her second poetry collection Destruction (2013). creative writing. SANDI TOKSVIG is Dark Sparring (2014). DAVID STEVENS NGAHUIA TE AWEKOTUKU ENGLAND JOHN SINCLAIR GUY SOMERSET ENGLAND / NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND GREER TWISS NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Sandi Toksvig is a widely-loved British Award-winning writer David Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, veteran writer, comedian and broadcaster. She John Sinclair has a Masters in Books & Culture editor of the New Stevens has worked in New Zealand, cultural activist and scholar, has hosts The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 and One of New Zealand’s leading post- Creative Writing and has worked as a Zealand Listener and before that Books Australia and the United States. He published extensively on heritage is a regular panellist on TV show, QI. war sculptors, Green Twiss is an political speechwriter, public servant Editor of the Dominion Post, Guy wrote The Sum of Us (play and film), issues. Mau Moko: the World of Maori She is the author of more than 20 books Arts Foundation Icon and an Officer and yoga teacher. In 1995 he lived in Somerset has been an arts journalist received an Oscar nomination for co- Tattoo (2007), won various awards, of fiction and non-fiction, most recently of the New Zealand Order of Merit. northern China, the setting for his for more than 20 years in the UK, writing Breaker Morant and directed the including the Inaugural Maori Book the Boer War novel Valentine Grey and His sculpture is included in all major novel The Phoenix Song, on an Asia NZ Australia and New Zealand. He served Emmy Award-winning mini-series A of the Decade. Her creative work a guide to the minefield of modern public and many private collections Foundation Fellowship. as a 2013 judge of the New Zealand Town Like Alice. Stevens has also written includes two collections, Tahuri: manners Peas and Queues, as well as in this country and a number Post Book Awards. @guysomerset three novels, two in collaboration Stories (1989) and Ruahine: Mythic being a regular columnist for Good overseas. He has been the subject of DAMIAN SKINNER with Roots author Alex Haley. Women (2003). She recently escaped Housekeeping magazine. Supported by two retrospective exhibitions and NEW ZEALAND BRENT STEPHENSON the academy to write poetry again. Platinum Patrons Erika & Robin Congreve. the monograph Greer Twiss, Sculptor. NEW ZEALAND MELINDA SZYMANIK @sanditoksvig sanditoksvig.com NEW ZEALAND BENNY TIPENE REBECCA VAUGHAN NEW ZEALAND JILL TREVELYAN ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND

Damian Skinner is an art historian and curator of Applied Art and Bird photographer and guide Design at the Auckland Museum Brent Stephenson has a PhD in Melinda Szymanik writes for Tämaki Paenga Hira. He was one of zoology and runs Wrybill Birding children and young adults and is the Singer-songwriter Benny Tipene English actor and playwright Rebecca the authors of Oceania: A New History Tours. He currently holds the record 2014 University of Otago College of came to attention when he appeared Jill Trevelyan is a curator and writer Vaughan trained in theatre and has (2012), which won the prestigious for the most bird species seen in Education Creative NZ Children’s in the local series of The X Factor. He specialising in twentieth-century appeared in film, television and on 2014 Art Book Prize. New Zealand in a calendar year Writer-in-Residence. She has twice placed third and was signed to Sony New Zealand art. She won the stage in the UK. Her celebrated one- and is the co-author of Birds of been shortlisted for the Music, achieving commercial success Montana Medal for Non-Fiction for woman Festival theatre piece Austen’s New Zealand: A Photographic Guide. award, has won a NZ Post Children’s with his singles Walking on Water Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life in 2009. Her Women brings thirteen of Jane Austen’s eco-vista.com wrybill-tours.com Choice Award and is the author and Make you Mine. Tipene’s new EP latest biography, Peter McLeavey, is most celebrated female characters to @b1rder b1rder.blogspot.com of A Winter’s Day in 1939 (2013). Toulouse has just been released. a landmark book about the life and life. Vaughan has also written and melindaszymanik.blogspot.co.nz @bennytipene times of one of New Zealand’s most performed Female Gothic and I, Elizabeth. bennytipene.bandcamp.com important art dealers. Supported by British Council NZ. 60 61 TRYGVE WAKENSHAW PETER WELLS People, at The University of Auckland DAMIEN WILKINS SIMON WILSON TIM WILSON NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND and at the University of Hawai’i for NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND many years and retains a particular interest in Maori women writers. CLIFF WHITING NEW ZEALAND

Trygve Wakenshaw is a theatre- An acclaimed writer, film writer and Damien Wilkins is the Director of Simon Wilson is the editor of Tim Wilson’s first novel, Their Faces maker, actor and comedian who director, Peter Wells is a member of the International Institute of Modern the award-winning Auckland Were Shining, was shortlisted for the writes and produces solo and the New Zealand Order of Merit and Letters and the author of short stories, current affairs and lifestyle NZ Post Book Awards in 2011, the collaborative theatre projects. His a co-founder and current trustee of poems, plays and award-winning magazine Metro, for which he writes same year that he published the story first solo show Squidboy won Best the Auckland Writers Festival. He has novels including The Miserables and on politics, books, the arts, food and collection The Desolation Angel. He was Performance at the Auckland Fringe written numerous books including a Dr. Cliff Whiting (Te Whänau-a- Nineteen Widows Under Ash. He is other matters. He has previously TVNZ’s US Correspondent for seven 2013 and had a sell-out season at the highly praised biography of Colenso Apanui), ONZ, ICON, has made a a founding editor of Sport, an Arts worked at the Listener, Cuisine and years and has written for the Guardian 2013 Edinburgh Fringe. @trygve123 and is bringing out Journey to a Hanging huge contribution to arts and culture Foundation Laureate and has been Consumer and is a published novelist. and the New York Times. His novel, trygvewakenshaw.net in July 2014. peterwellsblog.com in this country as an artist, carver, a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. His News Pigs, is published in April. heritage advocate and teacher. He has latest novel is Max Gate (2013). @timwilsonbarrio ALICE WALKER IRVINE WELSH been involved in marae building and UNITED STATES SCOTLAND restoration projects, has served on national arts committees, and was the first Kaihautü of The Museum All photo credits are available at writersfestival.co.nz of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. SIOUXSIE WILES NEW ZEALAND

Alice Walker is one of the most Irvine Welsh is the author of the accomplished writers of our time, cult-hit Trainspotting (1993), which known for her literary fiction, was made into a critically acclaimed including the Pulitzer Prize–winning film by Danny Boyle and Filth (1998), The Color Purple, her many volumes of recently made into a film starring poetry and her powerful nonfiction James McAvoy. His other novels and collections. She lives in Northern short story collections include The Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles California. alicewalkersgarden.com Acid House (1994), Ecstasy (1996), Crime has combined her twin passions of Supported by Platinum Patrons Betsy (2008) and Skagboys (2012) and the bioluminescence (think glow worms & Michael Benjamin. forthcoming The Sex Lives of Siamese and fireflies) and infectious diseases. Twins. @welshirvine irvinewelsh.net She heads the Bioluminescent GEOFF WALKER Supported by Platinum Patron The Superbugs Group at The University NEW ZEALAND James Wallace Arts Trust. of Auckland, is New Zealand’s 2013 Science Communicator of the Year REINA WHAITIRI and is a keen blogger and podcaster. NEW ZEALAND @siouxsiew siouxsiew.blogspot.co.nz

Geoff Walker is an independent editor and publishing consultant who was Penguin New Zealand’s publishing director for several decades. He has Reina Whaitiri (Kaitahu) is an editor published many of New Zealand’s and researcher of Maori and Pacific leading writers including Patricia Literature who has published articles Grace, , Lloyd Jones, and co-edited volumes of poetry, , Michael King and including Mauri Ola (2010). She taught Vincent O’Sullivan. English Literature, including The Bone

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Figures and Form: Greer Twiss, 23 Corry, Dominic, 18, 48 Martin, Geraint, 12, 56 of Book Prizes UofA Lecture, 9 68. Gender Divides, 23 Dawe, Ted, 8, 17, 48 Mathias, Lee, 19, 56 04.  NZ Listener Gala Night – True 69.  An Hour with Lloyd Jones, 23 De Goldi, Kate, 17, 25, 49 McBride, Eimear, 13, 16, 25, 56 Stories Told Live, 10 70.  Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, 23 de Kretser, Michelle, 12, 22, 49 McCall Smith, Alexander, 10, 05.  The Orphan Master’s Son, 10 71.  Vanity Fair, 23 Deans, Julia, 20, 49 14, 19, 57 06.  An Interior Life: Rod Moss, 10 72.  Art of Australia: Rod Moss, 23 Devenport, Rhana, 11, 49 McCarthy, Noelle, 13, 57 07.  Dear Leader: Jang Jin-Sung, 10 73.  The Power of Us: Ray Avery, 24 Dikotter, Frank, 9, 16, 49 McGregor, Judy, 23, 57 08.  Peter McLeavey, 11 74.  Screw You Dolores, 24 Dodd, Lynley, 11, 49 McKay, Bill, 11, 57 09.  A Taste of Italy – Lunch with 75.  Letters of Note, 24 Donovan Brown, Kerry, 25, 49 Mewburn, Kyle, 28, 57 Nicky Pellegrino, 11 76.  Mad Worlds, 24 El Rashidi, Yasmine, 10, 12, 25, 49 Miller, Alice, 12, 57 10.  Why Architecture Matters, 11 77.  Dirty Wars – The Film, 24 Ellams, Inua, 10, 13, 20, 22, 49 Mora, Jim, 14, 57 11.  The Life & Art of Lynley Dodd, 11 78.  Living Treasure: Leunig, 25 Emett, Josh, 22, 50 Morris, Paula, 9, 12, 14, 21, 57 12.  Ties That Bind, 12 79.  Unfinished Revolution, 25 Espiner, Guyon, 9, 50 Moss, Rod, 10, 18, 23, 57 13.  Call Me Maestro, 12 80. The Great Kiwi Classic: The Etherington, Robin/Lorenzo, Nixon, Carl, 12, 58 14.  Max Gate, 12 Bone People, 25 8, 27, 50 Ogden, Jenni, 22, 58 15.  Landscapes, 12 81.  Pieces of History, 25 Farrell, Peter, 19, 23, 50 O’Sullivan, Vincent, 12, 58 16.  A Question of Civilisations, 12 82.  Honoured NZ Writer 2014: Ferguson, Catriona, 19, 50 Pattrick, Jenny, 12, 18, 58 17.  Waking Elizabeth Knox, 12 Patricia Grace, 26 Ferguson, Susie, 12, 50 Paul, Sharad, 20, 58 18.  The Dark Side, 13 83.  Mad Comics: Etherington Finn, Tim, 20, 50 Pellegrino, Nicky, 11, 58 19.  Choose Life: Irvine Welsh, 13 Brothers, 27 French, Anne, 17, 50 Plunket, Sean, 20, 25, 58 20.  Mirrorworlds: Cornelia Funke, 13 84. Story Reading: Betty Friedlander, Marti, 10, 21, 50 Pratt, Douglas, 22, 58 21.  Young Clara, 13 Gilderdale, 28 Funke, Cornelia, 8, 13, 51 Ralston, Bill, 15, 58 22.  The Midnight Run, 13 85.  Poetry Play: Paula Green, 27 Galloway, Janice, 13, 19, 30, 51 Randall, Charlotte, 18, 59 23.  An Evening With Alexander 86.  Story Reading: Gavin, Jenna, 8, 51 Reynolds, John, 11, 59 McCall Smith, 14 Kyle Mewburn, 28 Gilderdale, Betty, 8, 28, 51 Ricketts, Harry, 19, 59 24.  Gutter Black, 14 87.  Picture Stories: Paul Beavis, 27 Glancey, Jonathan, 11, 16, 51 Roubaud, Jacques, 17, 59 25.  Demolition of the Century, 14 88.  Story Reading: Jenny Hessell, 28 Gleissner, Michael, 23, 51 Sarkies, Duncan, 14, 59 26.  May We Be Forgiven, 14 89. Mad Comics: Etherington Grace, Patricia, 26, 51 Scahill, Jeremy, 15, 24, 59 27.  Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill, 15 Brothers, 27 Green, Paula, 8, 27, 51 Scarborough, Zane, 20, 59 28.  Murder in Remuera, 15 90. Story Reading: Paul Beavis, 28 Harman, Richard, 21, 52 Sharp, Iain, 16, 59 29.  Eating Ourselves Stupid, 15 91.  Storyteller: Jan Blake, 27 Harvey, Siobhan, 8, 19, 52 Shuker, Carl, 24, 59 30.  An Entrepreneurial Tale, 15 92.  Story Reading: Hay, Karyn, 14, 52 Simmons, Geoff, 15, 60 31.  Not Our Problem, 15 Kyle Mewburn, 28 Henare, George, 24, 52 Sinclair, John, 11, 60 32.  Austen’s Women, 15 93.  Workshop: Lawrence Hill , 29 Hendy, Shaun, 19, 52 Skinner, Damian, 16, 60 33.  The Tragedy of Liberation, 16 94. Workshop: Michael Leunig, 29 Hessell, Jenny, 8, 28, 52 Smith, Anna, 13, 60 34.  A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, 16 95.  Workshop: Harvey Benge, 29 Hill, Lawrence, 10, 20, 25, Somerset, Guy, 22, 60 35.  A Life In Art: Cliff Whiting, 16 96. Workshop: Owen Marshall, 29 29, 52 Stephenson, Brent, 21, 60 36.  Great Modern Buildings, 16 97.  Workshop: Adam Johnson, 30 Hirschfeld, Carol, 10, 52 Stevens, Bob, 9, 60 37.  Lucky To Have A Job, 17 98. Workshop: Roseanne Liang, 30 Homes, A.M., 10, 12, 14, 52 Stevens, David, 18, 60 38.  The Conquest of Everest, 17 99.  Workshop: Elizabeth Knox, 30 Hughes, Caoilinn, 18, 53 Syzmanik, Melinda, 8, 23, 60 39.  An Hour w. Jacques Roubaud, 17 100. Workshop: Kathryn Burnett, 30 Hughes-Hallett, Lucy, 12, 24, 53 Taylor, Grace, 8, 61 40.  Into The River, 17 101. Workshop: Rebecca Vaughan, 30 Hulme, Keri, 25, 53 Te Awekotuku ,Ngahuia, 23, 61 41.  Go Nuclear, 17 102. Workshop: Janice Galloway, 30 Hunt, Des, 8, 53 Tipene, Benny, 8, 61 42.  From Earth’s End, 17 103. Workshop: Anne Kennedy, 31 Hunt, Sam, 23, 53 Todd, Yvonne, 11, 61 43.  Scandinavian Crime Queen, 18 Jackley, Jessica, 19, 23, 53 Toksvig, Sandi, 9, 20, 23, 61 44.  The Lucky Country?, 18 Participants Index Jacobs, Lauraine, 22, 53 Trevelyan, Jill, 11, 61 45.  Book vs Film, 18 A’Court, Michele, 11, 46 Jang, Jin-sung, 10, 53 Tusitala Marsh, Selina, 21, 61 46.  Matters of Discovery, 18 Al-Khalili, Jim, 9, 12, 19, 46 Johnson, Adam, 10, 24, 30, 54 Twiss, Greer, 23, 61 47.  Afternoon Tea: The A Team, 18 Alsop, Peter, 15, 46 Johnson, Stephanie, 10, 18, 54 Vaughan, Rebecca, 15, 19, 30, 61 48.  Austen’s Women, 19 Apse, Andris, 18, 46 Jones, Lloyd, 8, 19, 23, 54 Wakenshaw, Trygve, 8, 62 49.  Science and the Big Questions, 19 Ashton, Penny, 20, 46 Kennedy, Anne, 12, 31, 54 Walker, Alice, 21, 62 50.  Inspired by Auden, 19 Aslan, Reza, 12, 22, 46 Kidman, Fiona, 18, 25, 54 Walker, Geoff, 23, 26, 62 51.  Investing in the Future, 19 Atkins, Ben, 13, 46 King, Rachael, 24, 54 Wells, Peter, 12, 23, 62 52.  Life Stories, 19 Avery, Ray, 24, 46 Kinnaird, Adrian, 17, 54 Welsh, Irvine, 10, 13, 18, 62 53.  Our Booker Winner, 19 Bagust, Petra, 24, 46 Knox, Elizabeth, 8, 12, 24, 30, 54 Whaitiri, Reina, 25, 62 54.  Blood & Skin, 20 Bainbridge, Scott, 15, 47 Koea, Shonagh, 12, 54 Whiting, Cliff, 16, 21, 62 55.  An Evening with Barnes, Felicity, 18, 47 Krebs, Jonathan, 18, 55 Wiles, Siouxsie, 20, 62 Sandi Toksvig, 20 Barnett, Tracey, 15, 47 Lackberg, Camilla, 13, 18, 55 Wilkins, Damien, 12, 24, 63 56.  Poetry Idol, 20 Beattie, Graham, 13, 23, 47 Larsen, David, 13, 55 Wilson, Simon, 10, 63 57.  White Cloud: Tim Finn, 20 Beavis, Paul, 8, 27, 28, 47 Leadbeater, Maire, 17, 55 Wilson, Tim, 24, 63 58. The Color Purple: Benge, Harvey, 29, 47 Lee, Gemma, 13, 55 Alice Walker, 21 Beu, Carole, 18, 25, 47 Leunig, Michael, 18, 25, 29, 55

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