Peter has loved books ever since he was seven, when his dad read him Treasure Island as a bedtime story. Going to sleep with visions of Blind Pew, Black Dog and Captain Flint in his head didn’t make for a good night’s rest but it did open the mind to fantastic worlds beyond the North London suburb in which he lived.

Before long, Peter was making up worlds of his own. His first stories featured superheroes from the telly like Stingray and Captain Scarlet. Then he got a taste for writing James Bond tales and spent quite some time driving fast cars around the Riviera, shooting baddies and exploring mysterious islands in the Pacific.

Since those early days, Peter has written a variety of novels and short stories for adults and children, including a tale about a baseball player who has a stroke and a collection of stories about people living in Soho. His latest work is The Pirates of Vega T6, an all-action intergalactic fantasy set in the twenty-third century and featuring a thirteen-year-old space adventurer called Lucas Kaan.

Peter is married with three young children. Having worked for a decade in a big Japanese multinational, travelling around the globe and eating too much sushi, he jacked in his career to concentrate on writing. He now works as an independent copywriter, penning websites, brochures, adverts and magazine articles to pay the mortgage, whilst writing creatively around the edges of the day. When Peter is not writing, he enjoys throwing himself down hillsides on two wheels and seeing if he can get to the bottom in one piece.