Richard Harland

Richard Harland was born in Huddersfield, England, and migrated to Australia in 1970. After several years as a singer, songwriter and poet, he became a lecturer in English at the University of Wollongong. He resigned to become a full-time writer in 1997. He now lives in Figtree, eighty kilometres south of Sydney. His first book was the comic horror novel The Vicar of Morbing Vyle, which has since become a cult classic. In 1997 he began the Eddon and Vail series, which combines a science fiction world with detective thriller stories. The first novel in the series was The Dark Edge, followed by Taken By Force, then Hidden From View. His Heaven and Earth trilogy began with Ferren and the Angel, followed by Ferren and the White Doctor