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Charles Davis


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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
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Published on March 03, 2022 04:57
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

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 — 3 editions
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