In 1967 Beverley Harper travelled to Africa, intending to spend one year there. She stayed twenty, returning to settle in Australia in 1988. Her time in Africa provided the inspiration for her bestselling novels and she travelled back to that continent for research purposes once a year. Harper died of cancer in 2002 and her ashes were returned to her beloved Africa.
Jerome Pride is an actor who has trained in both England and Australia and has worked extensively in film, television, radio plays, commercials, theatre, voiceover and audiobook narration. Jerome has appeared in television shows like Frayed, Blue Heelers and McLeod’s Daughters. He has many audiobooks to his name, including Fiona McIntosh’s DCI Jack Hawksworth series, the Two Steps duology by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion and Marlborough Man by Alan Carter.