Peri Hoskins was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the second son of a family of five children, four boys and a girl. He is of mixed Maori (Ngapuhi) and Anglo-Celtic ancestry. Peri grew up in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, a provincial city then home to about 30,000 people. At high school he twice won a national essay competition. After completing high school and winning the school prizes for English, History and Geography, Peri went to Auckland University where he studied law and the humanities, including history and English literature.
Peri mainly lived in Australia between 1985 and 2005. He completed his study of law and the humanities at the University of Sydney including several philosophy courses. He worked as a lawyer in New South Wales before embarking on a 1994 five-month road trip all around Australia. This road trip provided the material for his second book, East - A Novel, which has already received excellent professional and reader reviews. Peri subsequently worked as a lawyer in both New South Wales and Queensland, and developed his current specialisation in legal work – civil litigation. In December 1999 Peri went to the Kingdom of Tonga to be in the first country in the world to see in the new millennium. The diary of his three weeks in Tonga has become Millennium – A Memoir, his debut book of creative nonfiction, which has been well reviewed in the New Zealand Listener. In 2004 Peri completed a post graduate diploma in film and television production at Queensland University of Technology.
Peri Hoskins now lives, writes and works as a lawyer in New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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Roadtrip, adventure, resolution and journey of personal growth.
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'A genial well observed book that insinuates itself into the affections' - Christopher Moore of the New Zealand Listener
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