Paul Hoffman is a bestselling author whose work has been translated into thirty languages. Possibly the only novelist of his generation to be born by the light of a paraffin lamp, Hoffman spent much of his childhood on airfields around the world, watching his father, a pioneer of sports parachuting, jump out of aeroplanes. He witnessed his first death at six when one of his father’s friends died attempting a parachute stunt.

After a long battle with the English educational system, which involved avoiding school whenever possible, he was offered a place to read English at New College, Oxford, despite failing all his O-Levels. After graduating, he worked in over twenty jobs, including as a boardman in a betting shop, messenger boy to a City merchant bank, and teacher. He was also a senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification.

Paul Hoffman's first novel, The Wisdom of Crocodiles, predicted the attacks of 9/11 and detailed how and why the financial system would crash early in the new millennium. His second novel, The Golden Age of Censorship, is a black comedy satirizing the world of film censorship and the visionary megalomania of New Labour.

He gained international recognition with The Left Hand of God trilogy, a top ten Sunday Times Bestseller, which sparked heated debate by blending contemporary and historical worlds. His novel Scorn is a contemporary black comedy, drawing from his own experiences in a Catholic boarding school, featuring a central character unlike any other, and cameos from Tony Blair and the Queen.

His next book, The White Devil, was published by Penguin on 2nd September 2021.