Authors

GLYN HARPER is author of many books, including Acts of Valour (with Colin Richardson), Johnny Enzed, and Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs. His most recent titles include The Battle for North Africa and For King and Other Countries, part of the First World War Centenary History Project. He is Professor of War Studies at Massey University and was Massey Project Manager of the New Zealand and the First World War Centenary History Project.

Anne Harre has studied music, literature, publishing and creative writing, and was awarded an NZSA Hachette mentorship for the manuscript of The Leaning Man. She works now as a school librarian, but has also been a music teacher, bookseller, freelance editor and reviewer, and editor for the New Zealand Poetry Society anthology. She has also worked for the New Zealand Book Council and as a trustee on the Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Anne lives in Wellington and The Leaning Man is her first book.

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John Evan Harris is an Auckland writer, journalist, and former rock musician. For many years he was a TV producer, and founded Greenstone TV. His interest in the Maungatapu Murders (which form the background of The Physician's Gun) was sparked when he produced the award-winning historical re-enactment series Epitaph for TVNZ.

Stefen Harris was born in Tokoroa and grew up in Rotorua with his Te Arawa Nanna. He is a frontline police officer having served for over 30 years in Wellington, Christchurch and Nelson. He has been a frontline uniform officer for the whole of his career and in 2017 was awarded the Commissioner's Commendation for Bravery. Stef Harris filmed his debut novel, The Waikikamukau Conspiracy, as a first time film director in 2006. Retitled as The Waimate Conspiracy the film went on to win four best film awards around the world including Dreamspeakers Canada, DigiSPAA Screen Producers of Australia, Wairoa Maori Film Festival and the New Zealand Screen Directors Guild, Best Digital Feature Film 2007. Harris was awarded the 2009 Air New Zealand Scolarship in Film and was mentored by New Zealand film director Martin Campbell on the Boston set of the Mel Gibson film, Edge of Darkness. The scholarship experience in Boston was eventually instrumental in the creation of both DOUBLE JEOPARDY and a new film project, Blue Moon. Following on from the Boston film scholarship, an early draft of DOUBLE JEOPARDY was written as part of the Hagley Writers Institute programme. Harris was mentored by Morrin Rout and Frankie Macmillan for the year long course writing a chapter a week to meet the course completion deadline. He graduated in second place with a completed first draft. Harris' arthouse feature film, Blue Moon, was shot over one week on an iPhone 7 and went on to win numerus best film awards in festivals around the world including in Texas, New York, Oslo, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Sydney. Blue Moon was offically selected for the prestigious Cannes Antipodes Film Festival and screened in Cannes in May 2022. Stef Harris is married and lives in Motueka. He has four adult children and eight grandchildren. He has a lifelong interest in martial arts and is a member of Seido karate. DOUBLE JEOPARDY is Stef Harris's third published novel.

Dr Russ Harris is a world-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, which led to a total career change. He now works in two different, yet complementary roles, as a therapist and a coach.

Dr Russ Harris is a medical practitioner, psychotherapist, psychologist, and bestselling author of The Happiness Trap, which has now been translated into 22 languages. Russ is one of the world’s leading authorities on ACT and has written several books on the topic. He lives in Melbourne.

Thrillers with a Social Conscience writer Andrew Harris is on a mission to change the world through crime fiction. Born in Liverpool, he moved from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 2008, following a successful career running his own executive search consultancy. His passion is crime fiction. Andrew strongly believes this genre provides the perfect vehicle for saving humanity. He writes thrillers that put fictional characters into real life situations. Andrew has created The Human Spirit Series; crime thrillers designed to be Provocative - Informative - Entertaining. Why isn't there a cure for cancer? How do we end world poverty? What causes addictive behaviour? How are we going to feed 9 billion people without destroying our precious planet? The first book in the series, The C Clef, was published in April 2016 and is an action packed thriller for the lovers of crime fiction, conspiracy theorists and free spirits looking for a really gripping read. A Litany of Good Intentions, the second book in the series, sees the same two protagonists fighting poverty and injustice in India. It was published in October 2017. The third book, More, explores the dark world of obsession, greed and addictive behaviour against a backdrop of diabetes and global food production. A psychological thriller, More is set in New York, London and South America and was published in April 2020.

Diana Harris grew up in Christchurch and studied languages and literature at the University of Canterbury, before taking up a French Government Scholarship to study at the University of Grenoble, France. From there she went to London, where she ran the office for a company operating hotel barge cruises on canals in France. On her return home she settled in Auckland, where she joined a publishing company and later worked as a freelance book editor for many years. However, after living overseas she realised what a special place Aotearoa/New Zealand is; she wanted to find out more about our history and the Māori culture, and she spent several years learning te reo Māori. Her first book was The Kiwi Fact Book, followed by a children’s story, Guardian of the Bridge, about a taniwha who went to sleep a long time ago and woke up in today’s world; then came Litterbugs, a story in verse about recycling. At the same time she embarked on the epic Johnny Jones: A Colonial Saga, which traces the life of her great-great-great grandfather and which also recreates the people and events of the first half of the 19th century as it unfolded in the South Island. Now she has completed 'Howling in the Wilderness', which covers the first half of the 19th century in the North Island, this time concentrating on the lives of Henry and Marianne Williams. She believes the early 19th century was a crucial time when Māori and Pākehā people began to intermingle and, in her opinion, it is the most fascinating part of the history of these, our beloved islands.