Peter Hobbs is a British writer. His debut novel, The Short Day Dying, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award. A collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train, was published in 2006. He divides his time between Yorkshire and London, United Kingdom.