Peter grew up in Hove and has four sisters - Susan, Rosie, Vinny and Jill - and has also lived in Norway, the Isle of Man and Australia. He is married with three children (Ben, Mike and Carrie) and their house is right by the Severn Valley Steam Railway station in Bewdley, Worcestershire. He is old.

He has visited hundreds of schools in the U.K. doing talks, readings and writing workshops. More details can be found by following the links at the top of this website.

Hobbies as a little kid (guess - seven true, three false): football, drawing, library monitor, playing-up in class, collecting cigarette cards, chemistry-set, choir, reading sisters' diaries, folding clothes carefully and putting in right drawer, scrumping.
Hobbies now (seven true, three false): football, llama-riding, learning German, balti-cooking, skate-boarding, trying to talk cool, tennis, reading, taking the mick, president of West Midlands Dai-ichi Bonsai Growers' Assoc.
(Answers to the right.)

Team: The Seagulls (Brighton and Hove Albion) - but also ran the

Kidderminster Harriers fanzine for a couple of seasons, it was called 'The Keeper Looks Like Elvis'.

(Answers: library monitor, choir, and folding clothes etc. are false; and so are llama-riding, skate-boarding and bonsai - sorry to disappoint you..)