WILLIAM HIGHAM was born in England but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. A Rhodes Trustee Prizewinner in English Creative Writing (Composition) he studied photography and advertising before turning to journalism, during which time he won his spurs covering the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia bush war of the 1970s. His work there sold in 15 countries and was published twice in the International Yearbook. In 2009, two of his novels, Nakada’s Touch and The Hammarskjold Killing, were collected in NELM (the National English Literary Museum), an affiliate of South Africa’s prestigious Rhodes University and he was designated a ‘Southern African author’. His screenplay adaptation of Nakada’s Touch was also a semi-finalist in the 2004 American Accolades Screenwriting Competition in Santa Monica, California. Higham retired a while back as a copy editor on News Corp’s The Australian newspaper in Sydney and now lives in the Lockyer Valley, in southwest Queensland. Since 2007 he has published his books under his HiMa imprint in conjunction with Lulu.com.