Angus Gillies

Angus Gillies is married to Tongan New Zealand tapa artist Tui Emma Gillies and has three sons, Rogie, Pele and Cassius, and a daughter, Aroha. He began his career in journalism at The Gisborne Herald in New Zealand in 1986. He later worked as a reporter for The Dominion, the Auckland Star and the Sunday News. He switched from print to television in 1993 and is currently supervisory producer on ThreeNews on TV3. He has had a novella, The Lizard Song, published as well as sports biographies on All Black Justin Marshall, Kiwi rugby league stars Matthew Ridge and Simon Mannering and Black Caps cricketer Adam Parore. He wrote Footballosophy with his father Iain Gillies, about Iain's childhood in the Scottish Highlands and his attempts to break into professional football with Glasgow Celtic. Angus wrote a non-fiction book about Princess Diana's death through the eyes of a TV news producer, called Once Upon a Time on TV3, The Week We Lost Diana. He also wrote the Kiwi pop star John Rowles' book If I Only Had Time. But he considers the three volumes that make up Ngati Dread - his non-fiction true crime and social history series about the Ruatoria Rastafarians - his most important work to date. He has written the crime novels Boom and Bust and Just Breathe and co-written one called Good Cop, Bad Cop with Thomas Mitchell under the pseudonym Gus Mitchell. He also co-wrote the non-fiction crime book Far North with David White, who created and directed the TV series of the same name.