Charles Harris

Charles Harris is a bestselling, award-nominated author and award-winning writer-director.

His latest novel, the comedy crime Play Me! came out on October 9th and is already a finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025.

Harris likes to give his novels a political edge and to go undercover to research them. For Play Me! he worked 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.

For The Breaking of Liam Glass, a gripping satirical tale of tabloid scoops and betrayal, he smuggled himself into tabloid newsrooms and local government offices. His debut novel, it was an Amazon bestseller and shortlisted for Wishing Shelf and Eyelands International awards.

For his second novel, the psychological thriller Room 15, he worked with police and talked his way into a police cell. It also became an Amazon genre bestseller.

He has won international TV and film awards for his darkly satirical documentaries, dramatised documentaries and his debut feature movies, the black comedy Paradise Grove. He has had short stories nominated for awards and his non-fiction work includes the bestselling Teach Yourself: Complete Screenwriting Course (John Murray) and Jaws in Space (Creative Essentials). Both are recommended reading on MA screenwriting courses.

He has also trained extensively in hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which he uses to help writers, directors, actors and other artists - and is a sixth Dan in Aikido.

He has a wife lives with him in North London and two sons who don't.