Books By Deborah Kay Davies, Dr. Becky Munford - Author

Deborah Kay Davies’ latest novel Reasons She Goes to the Woods (Oneworld) was long-listed for the 2014 Bailey’s Women’s Fiction Prize and short-listed for the 2015 Encore award. In her review for The Guardian, Eimear McBride described the novel as `exquisite…to be marveled at’. After the publication of her debut novel True Things About Me (Canongate, 2010), the BBC TV Culture Show named her as one of the 12 best new British novelists. When the novel came out in New York (Faber, 2011) Lionel Shriver in The Wall Street Journal chose it as her personal Book of the Year. Deborah’s first work of fiction was a collection of short stories Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful (Parthian) which won the Wales Book of the Year award for 2009. Her very first book was a collection of poems Things You Think I Don’t Know (Parthian, 2006). She started writing when she was a mature student at Cardiff University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing and taught Creative Writing.