Stu Duval

In 2000 Stu embarked on a journey as a full-time storyteller/author, combining his love of art with his love of the spoken word.

He is now considered one of New Zealand's master storytellers.

For the past decade as an author and storyteller, his travels have taken him all over New Zealand. Back blocks, city blocks, corporate boardrooms and classrooms.

This is the Land he loves. A land often lonely, isolated, and edgy, where the shadow of the bush always lurks. Yet it is a land of light as well.

He would say spiritual light. For the landscape and the Light are irrevocably linked in his art and tales.

This is the Land of his stories, the Land of his art.

He is the author of nine books for young people and is heavily influenced by the rip-roaring reads of his own childhood. His first book, Achtung Pavlova, (Reed Publishing, 2000),is a glorious tongue-in-cheek homage to Stu's boyhood heroes: Biggles, TinTin and the many punch-first-ask-questions-later characters that populated Boys Own annuals of his youth.

"Crackling prose ..a triumph of kiwiana!" the NZ Herald wrote.

Recently Stu teamed up with an old boyhood-friend, Ivan Clarke, to create the book 'Alveridgea;The Legend of the Lonely Dog' , the film rights of which were subsequently sold to Warner Bros.

Reviewers said of this novel:- "... spellbinding narrative means ... destined for legendary status."

" this novel quite simply is outstanding. If you miss it you will kick yourself."

Stu resides in Whangaparaoa, on the beautiful Hibiscus Coast with his wife and two adventure-loving boys; the inspiration of many of his books and tales.

Yeti Hunter is Stu's first foray into e-book publishing.