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Farrell Cleary was born in Kaikoura in 1948 to James and Hilary Cleary (nee Lovett); his siblings are Brigid, Joanna, mark and Gabrielle. Farrell has lived in Hamua, Fairlie, Oamaru, Auckland, Melbourne, Paris, London, Barcelona, Turin, Kumamoto, Aix-en-Provence and Tsu. He met Yuko Takahashi in 1982; they married in 1984 and live in Mt Eden.

Cleave, Paul (1974 - ) is an award-winning New Zealand crime writer from Christchurch. His ten internationally bestselling novels have been translated into over 18 languages. Cleave received numerous awards for his crime writing and has been shortlisted here and overseas, having won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel a record breaking three times for Blood Men (2011), Five Minutes Alone (2015), and Trust No One (2016). He regularly appears at international and national book festivals every year. Biography and image courtesy of Read NZ.

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Ivy Cliffwater is a debut writer, working fulltime on her writing and building her platform. She lives in Auckland, on the North Shore.

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Tania Clifton-Smith is a New Zealand physiotherapist who has 30 years' experience in the field of breathing dysfunction, breathing pattern disorders and hyperventilation syndrome, treating thousands of individuals. She and co-founder Dinah Bradley developed the world-renowned BradCliff Breathing method. Tania is in demand as a speaker at international conferences, now mostly on-line, due to her expertise and skills in treating Covid patients. Tania also has post-graduate diplomas in spinal manipulation, mind and body medicine, and meditation and mindfulness instruction. She is on the NZ Asthma and Allergy Educational Board and is a member of the NZ Physiotherapy Business Development Advisory Group. In 2021 Tania became an Honorary Fellow of Physiotherapy NZ, the Oscars of physiotherapy and equivalent to a national knighthood within her profession. Tania joins an exclusive list to become one of only nine New Zealand physiotherapists ever to receive this honour.

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Authors Clive Akers, Adrian Hill and Campbell Burnes are New Zealand's foremost rugby writers, historians and statisticians. Akers has been a co-editor of the Almanack since 1995. He was joined in 2014 by Adrian Hill and in 2019 by Burnes.