Peter Nichols is the author of the international bestsellers A Voyage for Madmen (finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), Evolution's Captain, and three other books of fiction, memoir, and non-fiction, which have been translated into many languages. His non-fiction has been nominated for an American Pushcart Prize; his novel Lodestar was a Book Of The Month Club Main Selection and nominated for the Dublin IMPAC literary award. He has written for the New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Gourmet and GQ. He has taught creative writing at Georgetown University, New York University in Paris, and elsewhere. Before turning to writing full time he worked as a shepherd in Wales, a screenwriter, and spent ten years at sea as a professional yacht captain, during which time he sailed alone in a small leaky boat across the Atlantic, the subject of his first book, Sea Change. He divides his time between Europe and the USA.