Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir

Alan Duff is a New Zealand columnist, advocate, businessperson and the author of 11 novels. He is best known for his bestselling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, which won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay. He subsequently wrote two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and Jake's Long Shadow (2002). Other works include the novels Dreamboat Dad, Frederick's Coat, and One Night Out Stealing as well as a non-fiction book Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Duff lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand.

Jordan Selwyn (Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Tahu) is a stage and screen actor, having recently appeared in Auckland Theatre Company’s sell-out success Murder on the Orient Express. He has appeared in numerous roles on screen, with recent appearances on Spartacus: House of Ashur, Tangata Pai, Ahikāroa and Good Grief. For Bolinda, Jordan has narrated Frederick's Coat by Alan Duff and The Unlikely Doctor by Dr Timoti Te Moke.