Deborah K Davies

The Proverbial Marquee: Words to Drive by

Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond

Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a b...

The Proverbial Marquee

As freelance advertising copywriters, Tina Rabb and Deborah Davies were selling supersonic subwoofers and touting Tijuana getaways on everything from billboards to fast food tray lines when it hit them: They were using their expertise to persuade people to buy things they may not really need -- so w...

True Things About Me: A Novel

One ordinary afternoon in a nameless town, a nameless young woman is at work in a benefits office. Ten minutes later, she is in an underground parking lot, slammed up against a wall, having sex with a stranger.What made her do this? How can she forget him? These are questions the young woman asks he...

Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful

Part novel, part fantasy, part social history, this collection of short stories set in the valleys of South Wales follows the lives of two sisters, Grace and Tamar. As these dark, universal stories detail their volatile sibling rivalry—on several occasions they almost kill each other—their disruptiv...

Reasons She Goes to the Woods

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid!Pearl can be very, very good. More often, though, she is very, very bad. But she’s just a child. A mystery to all who know her; a little girl who has her own secret...