—- Sorry to the Goodreads Readers to whom I gave away Price's Price. The books were mailed from Hong Kong in August and many remain stuck outside LA Port due to current supply chain issues There's nothing I can do, but please bear with me.—- I had a nomadic upbringing between the UK and US, left home at 17 and, after enrolling in (I was too busy drinking to be said to have attended) university, and a couple of years' drudgery, set off to explore the world. Hong Kong ended up being my home, but I have lived in most countries in South East Asia and a few in the Middle East and consider myself a citizen of the world. Writing does not come easily to me, but it is the only way I've found to make sense of the world, and the only activity which is wholly immersive - I'm both cursed and blessed with a passion for something I'm not very good at.

Vaughan Rapatahana (1953 - ) is a prolific New Zealand poet who also writes prose fiction, educational material, academic articles, philosophy and language critiques. Born in Pātea, Rapatahana is of Māori heritage, and has been published in both English and te reo Māori. He gained an MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland before studying Education. Rapatahana returned to the University of Auckland from 1991–1994 to write his PhD, titled Existential Literary Criticism and the Novels of Colin Wilson. Rapatahana experienced a varied career before becoming a writer, working as a secondary schoolteacher, housepainter, storeman, freezing worker, and special education advisor. Rapatahana was poetry editor of the Māori and Indigenous Review Journal until 2011. He has lived abroad for a significant portion of his life, teaching in Nauru, Brunei Darussalam, PR China, and Hong Kong for extended periods. Vaughan commutes between homes in Hong Kong, Philippines, and Aotearoa New Zealand. He writes regular book reviews for Landfall and Scoop. abridged from Read NZ