Philip Davison
Posted on October 31, 2006 | Category: Writers
Pre-eminently human… funny in the way that The Catcher in the Rye was funny. BOOKS IRELAND
Mr Davison has a gentle touch with words that allow them to filter through the mind, leaving a residue of warmth and familiar recognition behind. SUNDAY PRESS
It has a hero who smacks of early Beckett EVENING HERALD
It is obvious that Philip Davison could make any place or circumstance or character that took his fancy equally compelling. He has a sparse and strangely matter-of-fact style of writing that gives full value to every word and act. THE IRISH TIMES
You are invited to download the following books by Philip Davison.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
The Book-Thief’s Heartbeat
cover art: Brendan Foreman. cover photograph: by Jonathan Hessian
of actor Ciarán Hinds
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format :: PDF (858k) :: MS Word (451k) :: Open Office 2 (292k)
genre :: Fiction
publisher :: Co-Op Books
place & year :: Dublin, 1981
ISBN :: Cloth 0 905441 45 1; Paper 0 905441 46 X
translations :: none
translation queries :: author, via ILR
status :: out of print
Contact:: ILR
Links
Philip Davison at Amazon.co.uk
Latest Publication
Website
Biographical Note
Philip Davison was born in Dublin in 1957. His novels include The Book-Thief’s Heartbeat (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1981); Twist and Shout (Dingle, Brandon Books, 1983); The Illustrator (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1988); The Crooked Man (London, Jonathan Cape, 1997); McKenzie’s Friend (Jonathan Cape, 2000); The Long Suit (Jonathan Cape, 2003); and A Burnable Town (Jonathan Cape, 2006).
He has had one play produced, The Invisible Mending Company (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, 1996).
He has co-scripted the film dramas Exposure, and Criminal Conversation. His radio plays include Being Perfect (RTÉ, 2004); The Duke (RTÉ, 2004); Lennon’s Guitar (RTÉ, 2005); and The Fishmonger (RTÉ, 2006)
He lives in Dublin.
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August 28th, 2010 at 9:35 am
[...] you could do worse than browse Philip Davison’s first novel, The Book Thief’s Heartbeat, 1981, which he has made available under a Creative Commons licence. Pre-eminently human… funny [...]