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 novel One Night Out Stealing and a novella State Ward 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.
Louis Hill is a London-based actor. He can be heard on commercials for Instagram and Qatar Airways, TV shows and films such as Say Nothing on Disney+ and Paddington 3, and a wide range of audiobooks like The Bletchley Riddle by Steve Sheinkin and Ruta Sepetys and Larry Hayes's The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. Louis is also a published author, with his debut novel, Let the Light In.