PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Michael Nest grew up in rural Australia. After spending his twenties studying, travelling, and doing development assistance (foreign aid) work, he moved to New York City to do a PhD that included research in D.R. Congo and Zimbabwe. He has previously published four books. The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (2006) won a Best Academic Title, 2006 award from the American Library Association. Coltan (2011) focuses on the exploitation of natural resources in Central Africa. Still a Pygmy: the unique memoir of one man's fight to save his identity from extinction (2015) is a collaboration with Mbuti (Pygmy) activist and businessman, Isaac Bacirongo, and is the first memoir ever published by a Pygmy author. In 2017, Michael moved to Montreal, Canada, where he collaborated on an investigation into one of Canada's most famous missing persons cases. This research was published as Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett (with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell; 2020) and won SaskBooks' Creative Publishing Award, 2022. His day job is preventing fraud and corruption. Take Out the Jocks is his first novel.
