Peter Crawley was born in Chiswick in 1956. He was educated at Cranleigh School in England and at the Goethe Institut Freiburg-im-Breisgau in Germany. He spent much of his youth in Germany, Austria, France and Corsica. Upon leaving full-time education, and after a short period with the army in Germany, he worked in Stuttgart, as a translator, and on luxury motor-yachts in and around the Mediterranean and the West Indies. After further travels he started his own business dealing in Mercedes-Benz in London’s West End. He has now returned to writing full-time and his first novel, Mazzeri, a novel of Corsica, was published by Matador in July 2013. Boarding House Reach, his second novel, was published by Matador in June 2014. Peter Crawley is a former transatlantic yachtsman and historic motor racing driver. His interests include his family, his research and writing, and skiing. He lives in Chertsey, Surrey, with his wife, Carol. They have three daughters.