Murray Davies

Murray Davies (2 August 1947 – 10 September 2014) was a Welsh writer.

Davies was born into a mining family in Caerleon, South Wales.^[1] He won a scholarship to UCW Aberystwyth where he studied international politics, followed by an MA in First World War poetry.

Davies worked for the Daily Mail before joining the Daily Mirror as a reporter and feature writer in 1974.^[2]

In 1997 he became a novelist, writing alternate history stories. Davies' debut novel, The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands, was published in 1999. He then wrote the four-part "In The Eye of the Storm" series between 2000 and 2005; the third installment, Collaborator, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2003.^[3] Davies then planned a new series and the first two novels, titled Welcome to Meantime and Bad Blood in Meantime, were planned to be published in 2014 and 2015 by Old Street Publishing.^[4] Welcome to Meantime was published shortly before his death in 2014, whilst Bad Blood in Meantime was published posthumously in 2016.

Latterly, Davies suffered with illness before dying in 2014.

• The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands (1999)
• The Samson Option (2000)
• The Devil's Handshake (2002)
• Collaborator (2003)
• The Dogs in the Streets (2005) - re-released as Blood Lines in 2018
• Welcome to Meantime (2014)
• Bad Blood in Meantime (2016)
• The Undone Years (2018)

• Murray Davies at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database