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Richard McGee has long been passionate about all forms of motorsport, and has a keen interest in history. Fascinated by the Wellington Street Races that first ran in 1985, and as a resident of Wellington, he was ideally placed to extensively research and write about the races and the special place they have in New Zealand sports history. Richard is based in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Dunedin writer Paddy Richardson is a prolific fiction author. She has published two collections of short stories, Choices (Hard Echo Press, 1986), If We Were Lebanese (Steele Roberts, 2003), and seven novels, The Company of a Daughter (Steele Roberts, 2000), A Year to Learn a Woman (Penguin, 2008), Hunting Blind (Penguin, 2010), Traces of Red (Penguin, 2011), Cross Fingers (Hachette, 2013) Swimming in the Dark (Upstart Press, 2014) and Through the Lonesome Dark (Upstart press, May 2017). Four of the last five novels have been finalists in the Ngaio Marsh Award. Paddy has been awarded three Creative New Zealand Awards, the University of Otago Burns Fellowship (1997), the Beatson Fellowship (2007), and the James Wallace Arts Trust Residency Award (2011). Her work had been published in Australia (Macmillan), and translated and published in Germany (Droemer Knaur). Although she has turned to psychological thriller writing more recently, her first novel was a saga of five generations of New Zealand women, described as a ‘lyrical, slow-moving’ and ‘meditative’. Reviewing her more recent novel Cross Fingers, author Nicky Pellegrino wrote: ‘Part thriller, part social comment, part history, this is a very New Zealand story, stylishly written and compellingly plotted’. Paddy’s work has appeared in journals, anthologies, including takahē and Landfall and on radio. It has been highly commended in several writing competitions, including the Katherine Mansfield and Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards. Paddy is an experienced teacher of creative writing and has been a speaker at many writing festivals including the most recent Dunedin Writer and Readers Book Week. In 2012, she represented New Zealand at both the Leipzig and Frankfurt Book Fairs. In 2019 she spent six months in Wellington as the Randall Cottage Writer in Residence. Paddy’s latest novel, By the Green of the Spring, is a sequel to Through the Lonesome Dark, which was shortlisted for The New Zealand Heritage Book Awards and The International Dublin Literary Awards.
A former radio/television presenter, Bill Richardson writes for children and adults. His books include BACHELOR BROTHERS' BED & BREAKFAST, WAITING FOR GERTRUDE, and LAST WEEK. Awards include the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Silver Birch Award, and a B.C. Book Award. In 2021, he and Bill Pechet collaborated on HARE B&B, which was included in The Globe & Mail's favourite 100 books of 2021 and was a Top Recommended Read in the 2022 TD Summer Reading Club. Bill Pechet is an artist and designer whose work explores the spaces between art, architecture, public space, and landscape. His previous collaboration with Bill Richardson -- HARE B&B was a finalist for the 2021 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and co-winner of two Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He also illustrated Barbara Nicol's The Lady from Kent.
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Anke Richter is a foreign correspondent, columnist and reporter based in Lyttelton. Before she immigrated with her family to New Zealand, she worked in newsrooms and TV productions in Hamburg and Cologne. Her investigative and personal features are published in New Zealand Geographic, North & South, The Spinoff, Canvas, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, FAZ, taz, and others. She has written three previous non-fiction books that were published in Germany.
Harry Ricketts is a literary scholar, biographer, essayist, reviewer, editor, poet, and teacher of creative writing. His publications include the internationally acclaimed The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (1999) and Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War (2010). His recent poetry collections include Winter Eyes (2018) and Selected Poems (2021). With historian David Kynaston, he is the co-author of Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic (Bloomsbury, 2024). First Things is the first of two memoirs by Harry Ricketts, with Last Things forthcoming.