Writer and journalist, author of Pompa y circunstancia. Diccionario sentimental de la cultura inglesa (Fórcola, 2014), La vista desde aquí. Una conversación con Valentí Puig (Elba, 2017) and Comimos y bebimos. Notas de cocina y vida (Libros del Asteroide, 2018). Ya sentarás cabeza. Cuando fuimos periodistas (Libros del Asteroide, 2020) inaugurates his series of diaries. His latest book for Libros del Asteroide in 2025 is El español que enamoró al mundo. A life of Julio Iglesias. He has also published the essays of Un aire inglés. Ensayos hispano-británicos (Fórcola, 2021). Several of his works have been translated into French, Italian and Portuguese, and commented on the Times Literary Supplement. 

Translator and editor of Evelyn Waugh, Louis Auchincloss, J. K. Huysmans, Rudyard Kipling, Valle-Inclán and Augusto Assía among others, Peyró has also been editor of the anthology of literary magazine Lo mejor de ambos mundos (Renacimiento, 2013). He  has written as well various monographs on art, and has taken part in collective works such as the Atlas de literatura universal (Nórdica, 2017) or La España de Abel (Deusto, 2018).

He is a columnist for El País, El País Semanal and Cadena Ser. He also writes about books in Babelia and about food for Gourmets, the dean of culinary journalism in Spain.  In his journalistic portfolio, after starting as a political correspondent for El Confidencial Digital, he was a columnist and editor-in-chief of Culture at La Gaceta de los Negocios. In 2012 he founded Ambos Mundos, a cultural journalism project on the internet where he brought together some of Spain’s best writers. He has also been the director of the online version of Nueva Revista. Peyró is a frequent contributor in literary journalism articles and political opinion pieces, specialising in two areas: literature and cooking. He has published his work in Spanish newspapers such as El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Vanguardia, La Razón and El Español, as well as in national Anglo-Saxon and French magazines such as Ínsula, Leer, Turia, Revista de libros, Letras Libres, Vanity fair, F, Revista de Occidente, Litoral, Tintalibre, Clarín, Internazionale, Tapas, Esquire, Histoire et civilizations and National Geographic. He has written Spanish political chronicles for Latin American media such as El Comercio de Lima, El Nuevo Siglo de Bogotá or El Nacional de Caracas. He has also been, for more than two years, advisor to the official Spanish news agency, EFE. In 2018, he received the prestigious FIES journalism award from the King of Spain.

In the communications field, Peyró has advised various Spanish national political personalities. This experience highlights his six-year advisor in the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Spanish Government, where he came to be the director of the Speechwriting Office. As for his work as a lecturer, Peyró has presented his work in institutions such as the University of Oxford, the British Library, the Juan March Foundation, the Menéndez Pelayo International University, the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies or the Center for Contemporary Culture from Barcelona.

Peyró was the editor/founder of the online opinion project of The Objective. In July 2017 he was appointed director of Instituto Cervantes in London. Since September 2022 he is director of the branch in Rome.