Background
Pete Davies was born in 1959 in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
(Set in London toward the end of a bad century, this black...)
Set in London toward the end of a bad century, this black comedy is a vision of a civilization gone wrong and of the human cost of maintaining an inhuman system.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Election-Novel-King-Penguin/dp/0140097481/?tag=2022091-20
1986
https://www.amazon.com/Dollarville-Peter-Davies/dp/0394577809/?tag=2022091-20
1989
https://www.amazon.com/All-Played-Out-World-Finals/dp/0434179086/?tag=2022091-20
1990
(A British novelist undertakes a personal odyssey through ...)
A British novelist undertakes a personal odyssey through the American heartland, chronicling the idiosyncracies of life in the Great Plains tornado belt, from an Oklahoma rodeo to a Wyoming movie set to a South Dakota powwow.
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Country-Journey-Through-America/dp/0679408851/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(A comprehensive guide to soccer details the development o...)
A comprehensive guide to soccer details the development of the sport, the history of the World Cup from 1930 to the present, the status of U.S. soccer, and the twenty-four teams that have qualified for 1994 World Cup competition.
https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Two-Foreigners-Funny-Shorts-Intelligent/dp/0679774939/?tag=2022091-20
1994
https://www.amazon.com/I-LOST-MY-HEART-BELLES/dp/0434001430/?tag=2022091-20
1996
https://www.amazon.com/MAD-DOGS-ENGLISH-WOMEN-ENGLAND/dp/0349110093/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(A gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the moder...)
A gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the modern-day hunt for this elusive and deadly virus In 1918, a flu virus more lethal than any that has come along since swept through the world, from the remotest villages in Arctic climates to crowded U.S.cities to the battlefields of Europe, killing forty million people. Yet, despite its devastating toll and the probability that other deadly pandemics await on the horizon, it was relegated to a footnote in history. The Devil's Flu is the extraordinary story of 1918's forgotten tragedy and of the global scientific community's effort to avert another such disaster. The 1918 flu still so intrigues and frightens experts in the field that in 1998, a group of respected scientists journeyed to the Norwegian Arctic Circle in search of the mysterious killer. In The Devil's Flu, Davies captures the excitement of the hunt and the intense rivalries within the scientific community and paints a vivid portrait of the eccentric scientists bent on capturing the prize information that could hold the key to our future safety. And as far as the next pandemic is concerned, scientists agree: it's not a question of if, but when.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805066225/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in Americ...)
A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history. On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour. Known as the First Transcontinental Motor Train, this trip was an adventure, a circus, a public relations coup, and a war game all rolled into one.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Road-Story-Transcontinental-Journey/dp/080506883X/?tag=2022091-20
2002
Pete Davies was born in 1959 in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
The Welsh author Pete Davies’s first novel, The Last Election, was published in 1986 and is set in the 1990s. He is also the author of All Played Out, the classic account of the Italian World Cup in 1990 that's been continuously in print ever since it hit the bestseller list. Pete Davies wrote three novels, and eight other works of non-fiction.
Davies’ favorite topics of writing are sport and politics, history and science, travel and weather. He has flown in hurricanes over the Gulf of Mexico and off the Carolinas, chased tornadoes on the Great Plains, and followed stories around the world from Central America to East Africa, from India to Japan, from Hong Kong to the high Arctic.
Pete Davies’s book “Storm Country: A Journey Through the Heart of America” documents Davies’s 7,500-mile road trip during which he covered thirteen states, starting from Coffey-Ville, Kansas, in a 1981 Ford pickup. Davies fills the book with his experiences and stories of the people he met. He describes the tornadoes and storms of the Midwest, and his many stops at bars, stores, gas stations, diners, a rodeo, a baseball game, even a wedding where he gave away the bride.
Davies wrote about women’s soccer in Lost My Heart to the Belles (1996). He was so fascinated by the Doncaster Belles that he moved to Yorkshire to write the book, which had begun as an article.
Pete Davies was prolifically productive in the 1990s, but after American Road came out in 2002, he disappeared from view. In deteriorating health, he was told in 2006 that he had two years left to live.
In 2010 Pete Davies worked at the local Sainsbury's supermarket in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and had a season ticket for Huddersfield Town. In 2017 - after fifteen years of silence - he published his novel Playlist. A wildly inventive comedy, Playlist marks a stunning and unexpected return to print for one of the most original voices of his generation.
(A gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the moder...)
1999(A British novelist undertakes a personal odyssey through ...)
1992(Set in London toward the end of a bad century, this black...)
1986(A comprehensive guide to soccer details the development o...)
1994(A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in Americ...)
2002Davies understands how ludicrous modern life has become and gleefully highlights its absurdities.
Davies says that science is a cut-throat trade; scientists may be working for the good of humanity, but they are also human beings, subject to the same pressures and ambitions as the rest of us, so it is hardly surprising that impressively large brains come housed in depressingly small minds.
Quotations: "Politics isn’t football, and to write about it as though it were is to demean it still further at a time when heaven knows, it is lacking enough indignity."
Davies possesses a mischievous, wry wit and a wonderful eye for the illuminating details.
Physical Characteristics: Pete Davies is of medium height and normal weight. He wears glasses.
