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Charles Davis
Novelist and writer of walking guides

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2011

Standing At The Crossroads

Two people, two faiths, one hope, one destiny . . . . A white woman and a black man, stranded in the desert in a land laid waste by an undeclared war. She is a campaigning academic and believes in justice, absolutely. He is a barefoot librarian and believes in books, just about. Hunted by The Warriors of God, they must take refuge in the mountains and learn to live with their...

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PUBLISHED: May.30.2009

GR221: Mallorca's "Dry Stone Way"

If you want to get away from it all , there is no surer way than strapping on your boots, shouldering your backpack, and embarking on a long distance path; and there are few long distance paths more beguiling and more crammed with adventure than Mallorca s GR221, La Ruta de Pedra en Sec or The Dry Stone Way. Anybody who has visited Mallorca will appreciate the justice of the GR221...

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Bumping About Brittany

Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consumed in the comfort of your own home as a good read. Taken together, the twenty-five chapters/adventures/essays amount to a portrait of the region, its history, its landscape, its people...

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Walking The Dog

Santa Margarita y Los Monjes is a small place, but that doesn't prevent things happening on a large scale. Gravity is suspended in the Case of the Disappearing Private Parts, war is turned upside down and inside out because making love really is much more fun, greed gets flushed into the underworld where it belongs, and death is exposed as something less than it's cracked up to be...

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Walk On, Bright Boy

A touching account of friendship and betrayal in Moorish Spain, WALK ON, BRIGHT BOY evokes the pleasures and purposes of walking as a way of engaging with life. Marrying a coming-of-age tale with Gothic horror, it is at once an adventure story, a celebration of the power of dreams, magic and illusion, and an uplifting fable about the joys of living, even in the shadow of death....

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Walking Guides

Fully illustrated GPS ready walking guides from Discovery Walking Guides at www.walking.demon.co.uk Walk! The Alpujarras Walk! Mallorca (North & Mountains) Walk! Mallorca (West) Walk! Mallorca GR221 (The Dry Stone Way) Walk! La Gomera Walk! La Palma Walk! Andorra Walk! The Axarquia Walk! Brittany (North) Walk! The Lake District (South) Walk! Dorset Fully illustrated walking...

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Charles's Latest Blogs

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May.02.2012 - 5:14 am

N°88 May Away

In light of the spiralling pomposity of politicians, the irreducibly sociopathic comportment of financiers, the indomitable incompetence of both, the invincibility of...

Apr.02.2012 - 2:19 am

N°87 Writing Fireworks

Whizz! Bang! Ooooooooh! That’s writing in a nutshell. This first struck me at university when a friend asked me to help stage a firework display. Mike had been a...

Feb.25.2012 - 3:10 am

N°86 Unknotting - The Stupidity of Cleverness

When Jeannette loves a novel, she needs to know how it ends in order to enjoy it properly without rushing to reach the denouement. I find this faintly irritating. That’s sort of...

Jan.31.2012 - 9:51 am

N°85 Corresponding With The Clan

A little over a year ago, I somewhat injudiciously wrote an article for AOL News (now absorbed by the Huffington Post) about gun control in the United States. I admit it wasn’t a...

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Mar.06.2011 - 1:23 am

In response to: Purpose and how-tos of Facebook Fan pages

Being in the privileged

Being in the privileged position of having at least one fan who is not my mother, my sisters, my partner, my dogs or...

Feb.24.2011 - 10:03 am

In response to: Quirky writing habits?

I just had a nice experience

I just had a nice experience of letting something sit for awhile. Writing a novel about alchemy, grail myths, Celtic...

Feb.24.2011 - 2:42 am

In response to: Quirky writing habits?

I'm beginning to get an

I'm beginning to get an agreeable image of writers round the world dancing about their rooms enacting everything they...

Feb.23.2011 - 3:37 am

In response to: Quirky writing habits?

Last edit before sending

Last edit before sending something to a publisher, I look at all the good bits, thinking, "That's a damned fine idea,...

Feb.13.2011 - 6:16 am

In response to: Nº 65 Black Face, White Voice

That's my sister. She liked

That's my sister. She liked it so much, she had to say so three times!

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Nov.04.2011

Standing At The Crossroads

Published by Luxury Reading

luxury reading.com October 28, 2011 Review: Standing at the Crossroads by Charles Davis Reviewed by Claudia Robinson “It was danger that...

About Charles

Charles Davis was born and educated, and has travelled and worked. He now lives and writes. That has always seemed to me to be enough biography for any writer, but being an avid reader, too, I appreciate that curiosity demands a bit more, so . . . . Basically...

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Charles Davis
Novelist and writer of walking guides