Peter Templeton Neale

 

Peter Templeton Neale was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He was brought up on a dairy farm near Church Stretton, attended William Brookes School and has lived in Shropshire all his life.

This is his first published novel. He loves writing; initially letters, diaries and terrible song lyrics but when working on a degree dissertation twenty years ago found he could string a significant quantity of words together that would occasionally make sense. He wrote two novel-length manuscripts in the ’90s, one for children and one for adults, but without success. He began researching ‘The Olympian’ in 2005, inspired by the connection between his home town and the London Olympics. It took a year to research and a year to write and then three years re-writing and finding a publisher.

He is very grateful to Ina Taylor of Ellingham Press for allowing him this wonderful opportunity. The published version is the eighth draft. The story started as a dramatisation of Wenlock gentleman Dr William Penny Brookes’ life but Peter has read far too many Douglas Adams and HG Wells novels for it to be a straight and sensible story and ‘The Olympian’ morphed into a children’s time travel quest adventure.

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