“Frankopan, Shashi Tharoor and Anna Fifield will discuss the wave of elections being held around the world this year.
The country’s biggest literary festival, the Auckland Writers Festival, is back from May 14-19, with more than 200 writers, including a gathering of the world’s literary stars, all of them in person and not just Zoomed to a screen near you. There’s a new management team in place, including artistic director Lyndsey Fineran, fresh from the Cheltenham Literature Festival. A quarter of the programme is free, organisers say, including much of the family
