AphrodeSia

About David Peak

David Peak has written since his teenage years. After leaving school he worked as a progress-chaser. Since he made little progress of his own in this he left to study at the University of The West of England. Here lecturer and author Tom Ingram - who'd read some of Dave's writing - advised him to apply to The University of East Anglia's new MA in Creative Writing. Accepted onto the course in 1982 under Malcolm Bradbury Dave worked on a piece which would eventually become his first published novel: No.4 Pickle Street which received critical acclaim. Over the next few years The Cotoneaster Factor and Go Gentle were also published by Fourth Estate and were again well-received. In the new Millennium the growing influence of the Internet on the practise of writing necessitated a different approach. The result was that Dave decided upon self-publishing and discovered - after research - Silverwood Books - whose principles and working practices impressed him greatly. In this way Miss Woo Country came out in 2016 and Curious Things Etc. 2017. He has recently completed a sixth novel: AphrodeSia. Meanwhile The Elephant Box a previously-written but unpublished novel is here published as an e-book. www.davepeak.co.uk