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Charles Davis


Born
London, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Travel, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Herman Melville, Mark Twain, R.C. Hutchinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Uns ...more


Basically, middle-class boy born in the suburbs of London in 1960.

After a dissolute time at university, it occurred to me that if I wanted to write, I'd better get on and write something (I’m sharp like that), so I sat down and, through my mid to late twenties, churned out a novel a year. I always found plenty of publishers and agents ready to read these outpourings, but since I never took the trouble to rewrite them, they were all rejected and rightly so.

At the same time, more or less by accident, I got a job teaching in Sudan. Spent 15 months there, but decided to come back to Europe.

Next job took me to Turkey, where I met Jeannette, a French maths teacher sixteen years older than me, a disparity in age that allowed us to become friends b ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 42 ratings · 2 reviews · 24 distinct works
Bumping About Brittany
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Walk the Lake District
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Walk! Mallorca North and Mo...
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Walk! La Palma
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Walk the Alpujarras
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Walk On, Bright Boy
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Walk! the Alpujarras
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Walk! the Axarquia
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Walking the Dog
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Walk! Mallorca West
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― Charles Davis, Bumping About Brittany
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