Peter Jones started professional life as a particularly rubbish Graphic Designer, followed by a stint as a mediocre Petrol Pump Attendant. After that he got embroiled in the murky world of credit cards until a freak accident with a zip zap machine (remember those?) restructured his DNA at the molecular level and gave him entrepreneurial powers.

Now, Peter spends his days – most of them anyway – writing. He is the author of two and a half fabulously popular self-help books on the subjects of happiness, dieting and online dating. If you’re over-weight, lonely, or unhappy – he’s your guy. Meanwhile his debut novel, snappily entitled “The Good Guy’s Guide to Getting The Girl“, will be available any year now.

Peter lives just a few miles outside L...more

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How To Eat Loads and Stay Slim – opening chapter

TweetLast week I formally announced the impending publication of my next book, How To Eat Loads and Stay Slim, co-written with author Della Galton. This week, for those of you who haven’t figured out that the book has already got it’s own website, I thought I’d share with you the opening chapter.

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When I was a much younger man, ‘size’ wasn’t a word that I ever had to wor...

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Peter Jones gave to: Getting It Off My Chest by Janice Day read in March, 2012	My rating:
My favourite book this year so far. Laugh-out-loud funny in most places, surprisingly-shocking in others. Someone really ought to make this into a movie and cast Emma Thompson.
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