Authors

Andy Jones is a performer, writer, and former member of the CODCO comedy troupe. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions.Among his numerous stage and film credits, Jones starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed the 1986 feature film, The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood. He has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows, as well as Albert, a one-act play for one man and a budgie bird; The Lady with the Lapdog(a radical theatrical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story); and the children's plays The Queen of Paradise's Garden, Jack Meets the Cat (co-written with the Sheila's Brush collective) and Jack-Five-Oh (co-written with Philip Dinn). Jones also writes children's books based on Newfoundland Folktales; Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves, won the Winterset award in 2013. "Katie Brosnan is an artist and graphic designer known for her lively and engaging illustrations. She graduated with distinction from the Cambridge School of Arts Book Illustration Program, and in 2019 published two picture books that she both wrote and illustrated: Keith Among the Pigeons, which was long-listed for the Klaus Flugge Prize honoring the most exciting young illustrators in the UK; and Gut Garden, which received the 2020 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award (Information Book Category) and was long-listed for the UKs School Library Association Award for Information Books (age 8-12) and . The illustrations for Barefoot Helen and the Giants are her first collaboration with a Canadian press; they are unlikely to be her last. Katie lives in Northamptonshire, UK, with her husband and a cat named Jethro. "

Ruby Jones is a young Wellington-based artist and writer whose messages of hope and kindness captured the zeitgeist and gained worldwide attention after the March 2019 Christchurch terrorist attacks, when she shared her illustration featuring two women embracing, penned with the words 'This is your home and you should have been safe here.' A few days on from the attacks, Ruby was asked to illustrate a cover for Time magazine. Since then, her work has been shared widely and has appeared online with Buzzfeed, i-D, Vogue, Marie Claire and Nadia magazine. All Of This Is For You is her first book and a bestseller that has been translated into many languages around the world.

Anouska Jones is a cat-loving book editor, who has worked in publishing for twenty-five years. She compiled the quotes from a range of sources, while her own cat kept close watch from her vantage point on Anouska’s desk.

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Bob Jones is one of New Zealand's best known and best selling authors. A public identity for over 50 years and a highly successful businessman, he has been involved in public life, the arts, charitable activities and written over 20 fiction and non-fiction books that have consistently been amongst the most popular published in New Zealand.

Jenny Robin Jones is a writer of many years’ standing. Born in Wellington, where she now lives, Jenny spent her formative years in England, returning to New Zealand as a young adult to begin her working life as a teacher. She was for many years executive director of the New Zealand Society of Authors, served as its representative on the board of Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) and was a long-term chair of the selection panel for the CLL awards. She also chaired Peppercorn Press, publisher of the quarterly review journal New Zealand Books. Love America is her fourth book.

Olive Jones is one of the founding members of the Graham Downs community, an arable farm purchased near Motueka in the late 1970s. From her teens to her early 30s Olive lived off this land, cultivating self-sufficiency as a way of life, learning to grow and process food, build a house, and farm animals. Her resulting life-long interest in intentional communities has led Olive to study community cultures around the world and resulted in a PhD that documents long-lived intentional communities in New Zealand. Olive continues to be associated with the Graham Downs community, through her role as a trustee of the Renaissance Community Trust that owns Graham Downs.

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Lloyd Jones is an award-winning fiction writer. His first collection of short stories was published in 1991, and he has also written books for children. His bestselling novel Mister Pip won several illustrious prizes and awards including the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award and the 2007 Montana Medal for fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. He has written numerous novels, and has worked as a journalist and consultant. Jones’ writing is known to subvert the norms of fiction, and his narratives are challenging, original, and in some cases controversial. Bio and photo courtesy of Read NZ.

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