Charles Harris

Charles Harris is a best-selling author and international award-winning writer-director for film and TV.

His film work includes the rite-of-passage movie Paradise Grove, which won Best New Director in Palm Springs and the BBC2 satirical documentary Sex, Drugs and Dinner, with Alexei Sayle, which won Best Network Programme in the UK. He has appeared on BBC TV and radio, and written and directed for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, as well as freelance work for national and local newspapers and magazines, and co-founded the first screenwriters workshop in the world, London Screenwriters Workshop, now Euroscript.

He moved into writing novels with the satirical journalism-based thriller The Breaking of Liam Glass, which took first place on Amazon's Hot New Releases best-seller list for satire. It was since nominated for two international literary awards - Wishing Shelf and Eyelands.

His new novel, Room 15, is a psychological mystery thriller. It has already received 4* and 5* reviews and entered Amazon's best-seller charts.

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 is also a 6th Dan black-belt in Aikido, has worked with police, bodyguards and criminals and written a popular handbook of unofficial cop language for crime-fiction lovers called Police Slang.

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