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Peter Walker grew up in Christchurch and began his writing career as a journalist in Wellington and then Sydney. He moved to London in 1986 and joined The Independent and later the Independent on Sunday where he was Foreign Editor. He also wrote for the Literary Review, the Financial Times books pages and Granta. He is the author of the historical memoir The Fox Boy (Bloomsbury, 2001), set in Taranaki, and his first novel was The Courier's Tale (Bloomsbury, 2010), set in Italy and the court of Henry VIII.

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Tangaroa Walker is the much-loved face of Farm4Life and online education platform The Hub who runs a successful dairy farm in Southland, New Zealand. This also makes him a builder, plumber, electrician, engineer, truck driver, vet, accountant, employer, employee and primary ITO trainee. A graduate of the school of hard knocks, Tangaroa milked his first cow when he was 13 and went on to win the inaugural Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer Award and Southland Primary ITO Trainee of the Year Awards and earn six figures by the time he was 21. He has played rugby for Bay of Plenty and Southland Maori and runs the gym The Barracks in Invercargill. In his spare time (!) Tangaroa loves fishing, coaching and training and spending time with his whanau - wife Courtney and baby son Tekauenga.

Stan Walker is a trans-Tasman musician, performing artist and actor. He was born in Melbourne and grew up between Tauranga, New Zealand, and Ocean Shores, New South Wales. Walker was the winner of the seventh and final season of Australian Idol in 2009, and was a judge on the first and second season of The X Factor NZ, in 2013 and 2015. Over the past decade Walker has become one of Aotearoa's most respected figures, and continues to devote much of his life to his family, his people, and to maoritanga. Stan has earned eight gold and five platinum singles as well as one double platinum and one triple platinum single in New Zealand. Along the way, Walker has received eight New Zealand Music Awards and five ARIA Music Award nominations. He's won the Waiata Maori Award for Radio Airplay Record of the Year five times, in 2010, 2011 and then three consecutive years in a row from 2013 to 2015. Walker has also appeared in the feature films Mount Zion (2013), Born to Dance (2015) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016). He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.