Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

Overview

From the big bang to Armageddon, Africa to Ireland, comedy to tragedy, the 2012 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival once again brings you the best of fiction, history, science, comedy, crime, food, film, art, economics, poetry and more over the five-day event.

International highlights include prizewinners Jeffrey Eugenides, Roddy Doyle and Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings along with bestselling international crime writer Peter James, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss and spy fiction author Dame Stella Rimington. This year Maurice Gee will be joined by other New Zealand talent including Dame Anne Salmond, Dame Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera, Emily Perkins, Anthony McCarten, Brian Boyd, Ian Wedde and the comedian Rhys Darby.

Whatever your reading tastes, you will not want to miss this food for the brain and inspiration for your bookshelf.