Peter James Hutchinson was born in the Yorkshire city of Doncaster, a former mining centre, minster and market town in Northern England, in 1986. He attended Park Primary School in Wheatley from 1991 to 1997 before going on to college to study the performing arts - he achieved high grades in both drama and dance. The Freer's Stone, a work of visionary science fiction, is his first foray into the literary arts. When not writing, Peter enjoys going to the gym, swimming and poetry.