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Nina Nola has spent all of her working life among books, the majority of it joyfully teaching English literature at the University of Auckland. She has many academic publications to her credit and has guest lectured at universities and cultural institutions around the world. She has also been involved in several film productions in various capacities based on her Croatian heritage. Nina lives with her architect husband on a small farm by the sea in Whangateau and travels each year to spend time in her great-grandmother’s house on the island Hvar in Croatia. This is her first book.

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Diana Noonan is a freelance journalist and author of many highly acclaimed books for young people. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing. Diana lives on the remote Catlins coast in southeast Otago with her husband Keith Olsen, an illustrator. Her interests include environmental projects, running, natural history and food gardening, and she often travels to far-flung parts of the globe in search of traditional horticultural practices. Women of the Catlins is her first social documentary.

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James Norcliffe is a New Zealand poet, editor, and writer of mainly fantasy novels for younger readers. He has written ten collections of poetry and thirteen novels for young people, most recently two hilarious stories for younger readers, Mallory, Mallory: The Revenge of the Tooth Fairy and Mallory, Mallory: Trick or Treat about the awful Mallory and her hapless sidekick Arthur. James Norcliffe and his wife Joan live at Church Bay in Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch.

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Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years' travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family law in the northeast of England. Also a mediator and telephone crisis line listener, she's passionate about the power of communication to slice through the knots. In 2002, realising that her three children had barely met her, she took a break from the law and moved with her family to Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first novel, Freeing Grace, was published in 2010. Second Chances (After the Fall) was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice and World Book Night title. See You in September (2017) was shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards for Crime Fiction. The Secrets of Strangers is her sixth book and has been shortlisted for Best International Crime Fiction at the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards and shortlisted for Best Novel at the 2021 Ngaio Awards. In 2023, her seventh novel Remember Me was awarded the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.

John Norsworthy has taught in secondary and primary schools, Bible colleges and teacher education for over 45 years. He has served on curriculum committees and professional development initiatives in both the state and Christian sectors, and served as secretary to the NZ Association for Christian Schools for 20 years. Passionate about the influence of biblical revelation on all areas of human life, he is a board member for Thinking Matters NZ and is currently an adjunct lecturer at Faith Bible College NZ.

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