Price: $38-$88

Following a meteoric rise to become one of the hottest properties in modern dance, Hofesh Shechter brought his unmistakable style to New Zealand for the first time. Read on

Price: $53-$65

The circus got a titillating twist as Cantina’s creatures of the night came out to play. Read on

Price: $43-$50

Playwright Gary Henderson takes a touching, bittersweet look at life in the 1960s in this beautifully crafted play, directed by Jane Waddell. Read on

Price: $38-$78

Festival audiences were invited to step inside the vintage big top on Wellington’s waterfront and enter a world of enchantment and intrigue with Circus Ronaldo. Read on

Price: $48-$63

Evil kids ran riot and creatures of darkness ruled in this gloriously grim and wickedly funny world created through astonishing animated projections. Read on

Price: $15-$25

With characters named Cotton and Wrinkle you’d have expected Andy Manley’s White to be the kind of show that would have charmed your kids’ socks off – and you’d have been right. Read on

Price: $38-$48

Celebrated actor Michael Hurst joined forces with two of New Zealand’s freshest young writers in this innovative new solo work, set in the Shakespearean afterlife. Read on

Price: $38-$78

Struggle, power and sensational music came to the Town Hall, as five proud black women combined their talents in the spirited Walk a Mile in My Shoes. Read on

Price: $10-$18

With novelists Denise Mina and Ron Rash, place plays a vital and affecting role in their writing. For Mina, it’s the gritty streets of Glasgow; for Rash, the moody and rugged Appalachian Mountains. Read on

Price: $10-$18

Three of New Zealand’s best crime writers discussed bringing one of the world’s most popular forms of storytelling into a distinctly New Zealand setting. Read on

Price: $10-$18

One of Australia’s best-known writers, Kate Grenville has published eight novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process. Read on

Price: $10-$18

Patrick Evans is a Christchurch novelist, playwright and academic. Read on

Price: $10-$18

Kim Scott was the first indigenous Australian writer to win the Miles Franklin Award. His latest novel That Deadman Dance explores contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and European settlers. Read on

Price: $10-$18

Alan Hollinghurst is the winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and one of Britain's finest contemporary novelists. In this Embassy Session he discussed his latest novel The Stranger's Child. Read on

Price: $5

Who doesn’t know Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy; Bitzer Maloney all skinny and bony; and Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum? Read on

Price: $5

Gavin Bishop is a writer and illustrator with work ranging from the children’s picture book Bidibidi to his charming junior fiction memoir, Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood. Read on

Price: $5

It would be difficult to find a children’s bedroom in New Zealand that didn’t have at least one Margaret Mahy book on the shelf. Read on

Price: $15

Toronto’s Poet Laureate Dionne Brand and British poet and translator Michael Hulse read from their acclaimed collections and discuss their work. Read on

Price: $38

In a 'surprise Festival hit' Jonathan Besser joined composers/performers Ross Harris and Chris Prosser and Wellington band Kugeltov for a concert of colourful New Zealand Jewish Klezmer compositions. Read on