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Dr Carol Dawber is a Picton-based writer and publisher with a particular interest in Nelson, Marlborough and Golden Bay history. She is an experienced oral historian with a background in journalism and likes to focus her work around people and their stories. She has been a bus driver and four-wheel-drive tour guide but has never operated heavy machinery. She has an immense respect for those who do.

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Tom Dawe has been a high school teacher, English professor, visual artist, editor, writer, and poet. He has published numerous volumes, including poetry, folklore, and childrens literature. His latest works include Where Genesis Begins, winner of The Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award; Moocher in the Lun, winner of the Bruneau Award for Childrens Literature; and The Wonderful Dogfish Racket. His work has appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. In the seventies, during the Newfoundland Renaissance, he was one of the founders of Breakwater Books, a founding editor of TickleAce, and prose editor of The Livyere, a folklore journal. In 2002 Martina Seiferts comprehensive study, Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe , was published in Germany and Cambridge, Mass., USA. Recipient of many awards and honours, in 2007 he was awarded a WANL Lifetime Membership Award and was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. In 2010 he was named St. Johns Poet Laureate. In 2012 he was named a member of the Order of Canada and also of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Veselina Tomova graduated from Leipzig's School of Graphic Art and Book Design before moving to Newfoundland. A graphic designer and award-winning artist, she has illustrated books in Germany, Bulgaria, and Canada. She divides her time between St. John's, Newfoundland, where she lives in a small house overlooking the harbour, and Rusalya, Bulgaria, where she tends her family's vegetable garden and enjoys the antics of Bucky the dog and Ginger the cat. Her book The Wall & the Wind was included in the Globe & Mail's top 100 books of 2020.

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Jo Dawson grew up on a dairy farm in Wellsford, a small town in the North Island of New Zealand. She spent fifteen years as a teacher in New Zealand and abroad, before becoming a stay at home Mum and completing her graduate degree in theology. She has lived in Australia and the USA for a time and these experiences have added to her love of people and history. Blessed with a vivid imagination and the love of classical literature and historical fiction Jo virtually grew up bosom friends with Anne Shirley, romping with Jo March and her sisters, sailing a raft down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn or living in the 'little house' with Laura Ingalls. Born and raised in a strong Christian family Jo's faith is at the centre of who she is, with a lifetime of being involved in Churches and Christian Camps. These two loves, literature and the Lord have inevitably converged into writing compelling stories of strong Christian women, courageously facing the hardships of life on the frontier. It is her hope that women of all ages would find encouragement from her heroine's experiences that while fiction, so often mirror even our modern lives. Jo currently resides in the small North Island town of Waipu in New Zealand, where she lives with her husband, sons, father-in-law, and two very lazy cats.

Bee Dawson is a Wellington author, columnist, public speaker and historian. She has published twenty books of New Zealand social history, including A History of Gardening in New Zealand and Lady Painters: the Flower Painters of Early New Zealand. A keen gardener, Bee is an associate member of the New Zealand Gardens Trust and a past recipient of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture's Garden History Award. Chris Coad is a commercial photographer based in Wellington whose awards include a New Zealand Film and Television award for his work on Forgotten Silver and Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year.

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"This biography of two hunting brothers, ranging far and wide across New Zealand and beyond, is a well-written, evocative and often startling story. It entertains and intrigues from the beginning." -Norman Bilbrough, award-winning New Zealand author.