Peter Hobbs is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. His first novel The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005) won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread first novel award, the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and the International Impac Dublin award. It was followed by a collection of short stories I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (Faber, 2006) and a second novel In the Orchard, the Swallows (Faber, 2012). His writing varies greatly in style, voice and subject, while tackling underlying universal themes.
Peter Hobbs is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. His first novel The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005) won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread first novel award, the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and the International Impac Dublin award. It was followed by a collection of short stories I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (Faber, 2006) and a second novel In the Orchard, the Swallows (Faber, 2012). His writing varies greatly in style, voice and subject, while tackling underlying universal themes.
