Japanese writer Haruki Murakami heads a stellar line-up at the Auckland Writers Festival in New Zealand the full programme for which has just been released. Among the others attending the festival, which runs from 13-17 May at the Aolea Centre, are multi-award winning Australian writer Tim Winton (Eyrie, Cloudstreet), David Mitchell (The Bone…
A few surprises in the list of Top 10 cities to visit in 2015
Where to go? Where to go? Travel guidebook Rough Guides has just published its list of Top 10 cities to visit in 2015: Johannesburg (South Africa); Malaga (Spain); New Orleans (USA); Hamburg (Germany); Nizwa (Oman); Wellington (New Zealand); Belgrade (Serbia); Salta (Argentina); Birmingham (UK); Yangon (Myanmar) pictured above.