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Charles Davis

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born

London, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.redroom.com/author/charles-davis/

genre

Travel, Literature & Fiction

influences

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

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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...more

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Books by Charles Davis

Average rating: 3.69 · 362 ratings · 104 reviews · 71 distinct works

	Angel's Rest 3.84 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Drifting South 3.20 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Standing at the Crossroads 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ship Models: How to Build Them 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Walking the Dog 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Walk On, Bright Boy 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	Soft Bodies In A Hard World: Spirituality For The Vulnerable 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	The Art Of Access: Strategies For Acquiring Public Records by Charles Davis, David Cuillier 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Technologies and Methodologies for Evaluating Information Technology in Business 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:

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Quotes by Charles Davis

“I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.”
― Charles Davis, Angel's Rest

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“He finally saw the line went up into the big sycamore, gave it a tug and then studied on the whole thing while he toked on his pipe.
"That's exactly where I want it to be" he finally said and he went back to holding his pole like he was doing before, while looking at the creek.
"Up there wrapped around a limb?"
"I guess you ain't heard of squirrel fishing.”
― Charles Davis

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The World's Liter...: BOOK GIVEAWAY: Standing at the Crossroads - "a remarkable journey "	1	6	Feb 22, 2011 10:07pm
The Next Best Boo...: Her Royal Orangeness - Frequent Flyer	43	66	Aug 16, 2011 09:18pm
Around the World ...: Sudan and South Sudan	3	20	May 04, 2012 04:21pm

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