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Peter Edington was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1951 and lived in Malaya, where his father was attached to the Malay Regiment during the unrest of the early fifties. In England, he
was educated at Bedford School and went on to work with an old-established
firm of Solicitors in Exeter, where he spent much time preparing criminal
cases for clients on remand in the town’s jail.
In 1974 he went to Guildford College of Law. In 1982, he moved with his wife and three daughters to Shropshire, from where he taught Law and Business Management to General Motors dealerships around the United Kingdom. By
1989, he had succumbed to the call of the sea and decided on a sixty-foot sailing boat.
It took three years to complete while he continued to work as a
lecturer but in September ‘92 the new boat was launched in Plymouth. |
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The
author and his family spent the next two years sailing in the Mediterranean, the
Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean.
In
April 1996, he began his first book. Since
then he has written two full-length novels, The
Colombian Exchange and
Dead Run.
His third, "Viva!" is a
trilogy based in turbulent Central America, an area he has come to know well.
He now writes
full-time and
is
represented by the Tamar Karet Literary Agency in London.
Peter's
articles have been printed in British national and local newspapers and
magazines and he has appeared on national Television and radio.
To celebrate the millennium, he sailed half-way round the world to Australia with
his family on their yacht. During
this trip, the BBC made a video documentary of their voyage up the Gambia River
in West Africa to deliver cataract lenses to a bush hospital 200-miles up-river
for Sight Savers International. Here,
Gambian surgeons performed over two hundred eye operations, restoring sight to
many local villagers.
The author
sailed into Sydney on the eve of the new millennium to start writing "Viva!"
He hopes Book One will be finished later this year so he can go ahead with
planning a voyage to Cape Horn.