Crikey, in all the excitement of Easter (yawn) the fact that the full programme for the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival is now up and finalized completely passed us by. But there it is, in all its glory. I’ve just spent the last half hour feverishly scanning it and scribbling down scribbly things, none of which I can now read, and I’m sorry to say my consumer anxiety is at full gallop. I’ll just have to go to everything and stay in a hotel for the entire weekend ... yeah right. But I definitely don’t expect to be anywhere else all day Friday.

Bookings open on the 8th April to the public, but if you’re a festival patron you can book now; if a friend of the festival you can book from the 1 April. And the good sorts at the Festival want us to tell you they're happy to post you out the lovely programmes if you ask them to via Contact Us at the bottom of their their home page. Nice.