About the author
Tom Davies, a Welshman born and bred, was a state scholar at University College Cardiff where he graduated with honours in philosophy. He has been a seaman on ships around Australia and Africa, a social worker in the Lower East Side of New York and was the first graduate to be sent to Indonesia by Voluntary Service Overseas.
He later trained as a journalist with the Western Mail, the national newspaper of Wales, and went on to work on the Sunday Times as Atticus, the Sunday Telegraph as a feature writer and the Observer where, for three years, he was their diarist Pendennis.
He became a full-time writer in 1983 and has since written sixteen books which include Merlyn the Magician and the Pacific Coast Highway, which was short-listed for the Thomas Cook travel prize and recently acclaimed by Bono, the front man of U2, as being the one book that changed his life. Black Sunlight, his best-selling novel, was set in the 1984 miners’ strike and Stained Glass Hours, his pilgrimage narrative, won the Winifred Mary Stanford Prize for the best book with a religious theme.
He has written five books about various pilgrimages including those to Compostela and Rome and his latest novel is The Tyranny of Ghosts.
Married with three sons, he lives in Bala in North Wales.