Peter Best

In the beginning of the sixties, Peter Best, was born in the old fishing town of North Shields, situated in the industrious North East of England.

Albeit the son of a shipyard worker, Peter was brought up in a small mining community, until the age of eight, when for some reason or another, somebody made the decision to close the pit, uproot this community, and move everyone to a place called Cramlington New Town, on the outskirts of Newcastle upon Tyne. By the way, if this sounds terrible, it wasn't. Peter loved it there.

After his time in school he served an apprenticeship working mainly on building sites, as an electrician, which he hated by the way! However, as Peter always looked on the positive side of things, he was pleased he did. It was on these building sites, where he came across many different characters, who he was pleased to call his friends. "Real people," he called them. And so it turned out, many of these so called real people, and others of course, featured quite strongly in his novels.

Of course, it wasn't just the people he met on the sites; Peter had over the years came across many different characters on his travels. Some, had even played their part in working their way into his mind, to help shape him into what he is today.

In 1996 he married for the second time to a young German girl. Soon after he moved with his young bride, to the south of England for a short while. Then after that, they upped sticks again, and moved to Wiesbaden in Germany, as Peter wanted to help support his wife as she pushed at her career as a doctor.

Peter fell in love with the culture of his new surroundings, especially the culture of one of his neighbouring counties Bavaria. However, as they say all good things come to an end, and they both moved back to England.

It was at this time when his writing started to come together. Over the next few years Peter started to string together his thoughts and ideas for The Burden of Truth, as well as some other projects

He now lives with his wife and daughter, in a small seaside town in Essex called Frinton on Sea. Frinton, along with its neighbouring town, Walton on the Naze, both feature in his novel, The Burden of Truth.

Watch out for an update coming soon about two more novels winging their way towards the Amazon website. (Probably, January next year.)