Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill was a New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both independent films and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he is regarded a…
Timothy James Curry was an English actor and singer. From 1973 to 1975, he portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the musical The Rocky Horror Show, and reprised the role for its 1975 film adaptation The Roc…
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one o…
Some of my first short stories were crime fiction, and although in the last 20 years I have focused a lot more on writing children's and YA books, I've kept going with my crime writing. The first two …
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is the author of six …
Anne Cleary was born and raised in West Auckland and moved to Tauranga in 2016. Her short stories have won places in competitions and feature in magazines and anthologies in Aotearoa and Australia. Sh…
With 28 fiction novels and more than 1,000,000 book sales to her name, bestselling crime author Fleur McDonald has always had a strong affinity with the land and the vast Australian outback. Fleur McDo…
Neale Francis Daniher AO was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was later the coach of the Melbourne Football Club between …
I am the author of six published novels, my latest being the crime thriller One Dark Night. I am releasing my first work of non-fiction, An Ocean and a Day, in 2026. This is a deeply personal memoir a…
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction author. His first book, Scrublands, was an instant #1 bestseller upon publication in 2018. It won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association John …
Ralph Jackman was born in Norfolk in 1981. He holds a first class honours degree in Classics from King’s College, London, and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Essex, where he was t…
Petronella McGovern writes psychological thrillers focusing on everyday characters and contemporary issues. She is fascinated by what makes us tick, the lies we tell, and the secrets we keep.
The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand at the age of thirty-seven, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years. Since lea…
Within seconds, Stephanie’s life was altered for ever after surviving the 2019 White Island eruption. Whilst coming to terms with the loss of her Dad and younger sister, she was battling through physi…
