B Monkey

Andrew Davies was born in Cardiff in 1936 and lives in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. He is married, with two grown-up children, and five years ago he resigned from his teaching job at Warwick University to write full time. 
His play, Rose, starring Glenda Jackson, played to full houses at the Duke of York's theatre and was subsequently produced on Broadway and in many other countries; and Prin, starring Shelia Hancock, was staged in 1989 to great acclaim. He has won numerous awards for his work on television, including the Writer's Award of the Royal Television Society for A Very Peculiar Practice and the 1989 BAFTA Writer's Award. 
His previous works of fiction include Getting Hurt and Dirty Faxes.

Read her name! B. Monkey. You can still see it, emblazoned on the cars, the trains, the writing on the wall. Now she's Beatrice. Steady job, steady man, off the drugs, on the level. But going straight can't compare with the heady thrill of life on the edge. Not when the past keeps hooking in to the present. Not when Alan, her love, her rescuer, her future, can never hope to understand...

Getting Hurt

Andrew Davies was born in Cardiff and lives in Warwickshire. His plays, Prin and Rose, were highly praised in the West End and New York, and he has won numerous awards for his work for television, which includes A Very Peculiar Practice, Mother Love and House of Cards. Getting Hurt was his first novel, and he has since published a collection of short stories, Dirty Faxes, which is also available in Minerva.

In his own words, Charlie Cross is a bloke in love. A hard-drinking, chain-smoking lawyer, he is well-off, divorced and heading for trouble. When he meets Viola in an after-hours drinking club, he knows instinctively that they could do each other harm. What follows is one man's record of a love affair, an erotic, savagely funny and heartfelt tale of destructive sexual passion.

Andrew Davies

Almost all the stories in Andrew Davies' brilliant collection are about the black comedy of people's - or writer's - insecurities, imaginings and nightmares.

'Coming a little nearer to Scannell's own situation, au pairs have a long, well established and respectable tradition as persons into whom it is OK, even de rigeur, to dip the seigneurial wick. But cleaning ladies. Cleaning women. Deeply suspect to have to admit to employing one, but to look lewdly upon, to have a bit on the side with, to, oh God, fall in love with...' 
 
A middle-aged professor is thrown into confusion when his cleaning lady offers an unusual service; fellow travellers on a train make some intimate connections; a respectable writer's life is invaded by obscene communications from a rogue fax machine; a man loses his lover unexpectedly, only to find that she has left him a distressingly tactile souvenir. Even the page on which a computer prints out can be infiltrated by alien parasites with a startling lack of warning.

Andrew Davies

Praise for Dirty Faxes

Almost all the stories in Andrew Davies' brilliant collection are about the black comedy of people's - or writer's - insecurities, imaginings and nightmares.

Books by Andrew Davies

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