Dreamboat Dad

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.

Melbourne-based Ollie Howlett's passion for music and performance ignited early in his life growing up in Aotearoa’s Hawkes Bay. After completing his arts training at NASDA in Ōtautahi, he became a standout theatre maker and musician, primarily working with The Barden Party in their award-winning Shakespeare touring productions. Secrets at Red Rocks by Rachel King is Ollie's first audiobook narration, and he is incredibly excited to get stuck into a new medium.