Stephen Davies

Welcome. My name is Stephen Davies and I am a children's author writing picture books, chapter books and teen novels. I have lived in Africa for ten years, working with World Horizons amongst Fulani cattle herders. My books are set in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

Category: Outlaw

Visiting Year 8 at Henry Cort Community College

by Stephen Davies

I enjoyed visiting Henry Cort Community College last Friday and spending a morning with Year 8. Some fantastic thriller concepts came out of the workshops, some of which sent a chill down my spine! ‘Locked in a zoo’ and ‘Brother versus brother’ were just two that I remember out of many strong ideas. Well done [...]

Published: December 3, 2012 | Filed Under: Contact an Author, Hacking Timbuktu, Outlaw, School visits, The Yellowcake Conspiracy, YA books | Tags: : :

Hampshire ‘Meet the Author’ event

by Stephen Davies

Hampshire’s ‘Meet the Author’ programme aims to support literacy and to inspire reading and writing by giving children the opportunity to meet authors. My participation in the programme took place last Thursday, first at Berrywood Primary (with visiting pupils from Shambleshurt Primary) and then at the New Forest Academy (with visiting pupils from Blackfield Primary [...]

Published: November 28, 2012 | Filed Under: Contact an Author, Hacking Timbuktu, Outlaw, School visits, The Yellowcake Conspiracy, Writing Tips, YA books | Tags: : : : :

Hampshire Book Award 2012 Result

by Stephen Davies

Huge congratulations to Canadian author Kenneth Oppel for winning the 2012 Hampshire Book Award. His book HALF BROTHER is the story of Ben Tomlin, whose research-scientist parents bring home a baby chimp to raise as a human child. The final vote took place today, with dozens of Hampshire schools sending representatives from Year 8. Many [...]

Published: June 27, 2012 | Filed Under: Outlaw, School visits, YA books | Tags: : : : : :

What do Julian Assange and Jason Bourne have in common?

by Stephen Davies

Today’s instalment of the Wikileaks true-life spy story saw Julian Assange take refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy. These events bring to my mind one of the strongest scenes in the Bourne Identity film (indeed, in the whole Bourne franchise to date) – the scene at the American Embassy in Paris. Bourne cluelessly seeks refuge there, [...]

Published: June 20, 2012 | Filed Under: Outlaw, Writing Tips | Tags: : : :

OUTLAW shortlisted for the Hampshire Book Award

by Stephen Davies

I was pleased to learn today that my latest teen book OUTLAW has been shortlisted for the 2012 Hampshire Book Award. The result will be announced in June. So here is the Hampshire Book Award 2012 shortlist: Burning Secrets – Clare Chambers Outlaw – Stephen Davies Reckless by Cornelia Funke Theodore Boone – John Grisham [...]

Published: April 17, 2012 | Filed Under: Outlaw, School visits, YA books | Tags: : : : : :