Charles Harris

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.

Harris likes to give his thrillers a political edge and to go undercover to research them. He has secretly found his way into tabloid newsrooms, local government offices, police stations and even a police cell.

For the books he’s currently writing, he’s spent time covertly with SAS veterans, journalists researching high-profile assassinations and charity workers dealing with international corruption. He goes to great lengths to get the right details, to the point of falling off a mountain in the Caribbean.

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.

As a non-fiction author, his books Teach Yourself: Complete Screenwriting Course and Jaws in Space: Powerful Pitching for Film and TV are Amazon best-sellers and recommended reading on MA courses.

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’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).

He has a wife and a cat, who live with him in London, and two sons, who don’t.