Charles Harris is a best-selling author, award-winning writer-director, journalist, martial arts black belt and currently a director of the Society of Authors.
He’s also a passionate Green and an elected member of the Green Party’s national Campaigns Committee. He would love to help save the human race, if it actually wants to be saved (which he sometimes doubts).
Charles’s first novel, the literary political thriller The Breaking of Liam Glass was an Amazon bestseller and double award-nominee.
His second, Room 15 (published by Bloodhound Books) is a psychological mystery thriller about a police detective with amnesia. It too immediately became an Amazon bestseller.
His film work includes the rite-of-passage movie Paradise Grove, which won Best New Director in Palm Springs. His BBC2 satirical documentary Sex, Drugs and Dinner, with Alexei Sayle won One World’s Best Network Programme of the Year. He co-founded the first screenwriters’ workshop in the world, London Screenwriters’ Workshop, now Euroscript. And is a 6th Dan black-belt in Aikido.
He has spoken on BBC TV and radio, and written and directed for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, as well as freelance journalism for national and local newspapers and magazines.
He has a wife and a cat, who live with him in London, and two sons, who don’t.
