Pig farmer turned English teacher, head teacher turned writer
trouble
A teenager’s favourite word
dunno
An English textbook
Peter Inson grew up in Essex and trained as an agriculturalist, became a teacher of English. After three years running a comprehensive school in west London he left the state system.
For five years he taught at an international boarding school in Switzerland and helped his wife run a boarding house for teenage girls.
At school he failed English literature and sympathises with teenagers who now face much unreasonable pressure to “succeed” early in life. Eventually, he gained a degree in English and has been an examiner for the International Baccalaureate.
For a short while, he and his wife fostered a fifteen year-
Peter’s first novel, dunno won an Arts Council award. In 2009 Heimemann commissioned a text book for the IGCSE which was published in March 2011.
He has written about education and young people in the national press and continues
to write both fiction and non-
He writes a regular column for a local magazine.
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