Daniel Davies was born near Birmingham in 1973 to a Welsh father and a German-Polish mother. He was educated at comprehensive schools and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied English. He has worked as a journalist, museum curator, sub-editor, teacher of English in Prague and Barcelona, and hairnet-wearing line worker in a 24-hour peanut butter factory.
Dan is currently an advertising copywriter in London. He has had poetry and short stories published in a wide range of literary magazines, both in the UK and abroad, and broadcast on Radio 4. His first novel, The Isle of Dogs, will be published in 2008 by Serpent’s Tail.
The story: Jeremy Shepherd is 39, handsome, intelligent, charming. While working in London as a high-profile magazine editor, he suffers a devastating breakdown and moves back home to live with his elderly parents in a small town in the provinces. There, in an effort to ‘clear out’ his cluttered life, he wilfully takes a dead-end job. By day.
By night, he leads a parallel existence as a compulsive sex addict, a member of a private and codified world of secret meetings in car parks with willing strangers. The sex is hot, the adrenaline rush unbelievable. But the cost is always going to be high.
This novel is also the story of present-day England: poor, provincial, violent, ASBO-ridden, under constant CCTV surveillance and fractured by racial tension.
Welcome to The Isle of Dogs. Take care where you tread.
TO BE PUBLISHED
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