The moving finger writes…
Welcome to the website, which introduces you to my writing and some of the things that inspire me. Please feel free to join in and contact me. The more the merrier…
Peter Bromley is an award-winning author who has published non-fiction, short stories and literary novels. He has won a number of prizes for his short fiction, was the recipient of a New Writing North bursary and was recently long-listed for The Jerwood Award. His background is in environmental and cultural conservation before moving into fiction.
About
I have had three non-fiction conservation books published, a collection of short fiction and my debut novel, Of Human Folly was published by Silver Quill Publishing. The novel is an exploration of one person’s response to the spiralling climate crisis and has been described… “as urgent as Silent Spring.” To purchase a limited edition and signed copy of the novel Of Human Folly, please contact me direct. Otherwise, it is available here. A second book, a collection of short fiction entitled Skylight was published early in 2025, and the latest novel, The Tale of the Strayaway Child was published in summer 2025. For limited edition and signed copies of The Tale of the Strayaway Child, please contact me direct.
Projects
I am working towards the publication of a third full-length novel; never one to avoid a complicated subject, I’m into its final edit and it is a novel about socio-economic inequality in 20/21st century Britain…oh, and it’s also about gardens. In addition, I’m undertaking research for a non-fiction book about designing and building a low impact house in the Scottish Highlands, and planning a novella… and there’s also a new novel in the offing which looks at a family dealing with multi-generational tensions, including dementia…and I might, at some point, rework some of my early short fiction towards a second collection. So…plenty to be getting on with.