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Nick Davies is an actor-turned-writer from Wellington, New Zealand who has appeared internationally in both film and on TV. He has written a collection of travel stories entitled The Lost Gringo Chronicles and has worked as a freelance contributor on Mexico for The Dominion Post.

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Chris Davies Curtis was born in Yorkshire England, and spent her school years in Stratford-upon-Avon with her parents and elder brother David. She then trained to be a registered nurse, meeting her future husband on a pony trekking holiday. Four years after marrying Londoner, Ken they moved to the British Channel Isle of Sark. After about seven years of running a guest house and smallholding they decided to explore New Zealand in a Bedford van for two years, taking young son Roy with them. Various jobs paid the way, and they returned to Sark to lease their property and emigrate back to New Zealand. Here Chris became a rural District Nurse. Sadly the marriage ended and Chris returned to Sark, where she lived with a partner for 17 years, until he died of a brain tumour. She now lives north of Auckland, near her son and family. Writing has always been a hobby (her father was a short story writer), and she has now published four 'memoirs' about her eventful life. Now she is writing Medical Romances, using some of her own experiences. They are proving popular in the UK, published by D C Thomson's Pocket Novels. She was commissioned to write Historical novel for her local Anglican church's centenary celebrations in 2017 which carries the history of parts of New Zealand as well as the church through the eyes of fictional characters. Writing in the Fantasy genre, she has also published 'The Healing Hands,' telling the story of a nurse who is sent back to the Second World War, to cope with powers planning to introduce a virus secreted from the Spanish 'flu of 1918.

Dan Davin was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who became Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Throughout his career, in his spare time, he wrote both fiction and works of memoir, from his war novel For the Rest of Their Lives (1947) and Southland novel Roads from Home (1949) to his collection of war stories The Salamander and the Fire (1986). Janet Wilson is Reader in English at University College, Northhampton and editor of the Journal for Postcolonial Writing. She has contributed to the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature and edited Intimate Strangers - Reminiscences of Dan Davin.

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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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