Peter Fleming was born in England in 1946. His working life was spent in both the defence industry and the oil industry, living and working for many years in the Middle East. With wife Claire he then moved to Australia for ten years, and these years are the subject of his second book 'In the Middle of Macadamias'. His first book 'In the Middle of Nowhere' was published in 2016 and chronicles his journey through Africa in 1980.