Paul E. Hardisty Bio

Paul E Hardisty is a full-time writer and free-lance journalist. He has worked all over the world as an environmental scientist, including in some of the planet’s most damaged and troubled places. From 2017 to 2023 he was CEO of Australia’s national marine science agency, AIMS, and he has recently spent several weeks in Ukraine writing about the war. His latest novels THE FORCING (Short-listed for the Crime Fiction Lovers’ 2023 Awards) and its follow-up THE DESCENT, consider a very-near future impacted by climate change and follows a group of people among those deemed responsible for the calamity. He is the author of five other novels, including the Claymore Straker series (Absolution, Reconciliation for the Dead, The Evolution of Fear, and The Abrupt Physics of Dying, which was short-listed for the CWA Creasy New Blood Dagger and was a Telegraph Book of the Year. His new non-fiction book IN HOT WATER: Inside the Battle to Save the Great Barrier Reef, will be published in May 2024. His textbooks, including Environmental and Economic Sustainability, are also available on Amazon. Paul is a keen outdoorsman, a conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia. For fun he enjoys triathlon, sea kayaking, martial arts, hiking and shooting.