Seabourn welcomes a star-studded line-up of literary luminaries with "Authors at Sea."

Joanne Harris, OBE

Joanne Harris OBE is the author of over twenty novels, including CHOCOLAT, which was adapted to the screen in 2000, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her books are published in over 50 countries, and have won many British and international awards.

John Kiriakou

John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, and the son of two public elementary school teachers. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then-President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of the revelation.
In 2012, the Ralph Nader family honored Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, an award given to individuals who “advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.” He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers. His portrait, make of Legos by the famed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian University. Another, done by Andres Serrano, is in the collection of London's Tate Museum. And third is in artist Robert Shetterly’s series Americans Who Tell the Truth, which features notable truth-tellers throughout American history.
Kiriakou is the author of eight books, including The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror; Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison; The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America’s Secret Wars; and The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis.
Kiriakou has worked with multiple showrunners as script advisor or script consultant for such films as The Bourne Ultimatum, The Kite Runner, and Kill the Messenger, and television series, including Burn Notice and True Lies.

Santa Montefiore

Santa Montefiore is the number one international bestselling author of thirty-four titles. Her books are translated into twenty-five languages and she has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. She also co-wrote the children’s series The Royal Rabbits of London with her husband, historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore. They live in London with their two children, Lily and Sasha, and their Labrador Simba.