Kevin Davey

Kevin Davey is a British author of experimental fiction. Education Davey was educated at Ashdon County Primary School, Newport Grammar School, Oadby Community College, Charles Keane College, and the University of Kent in Canterbury. Writing His early writings were in the field of cultural studies and politics. As a member of the Signs of the Times group in the 1990s he contributed "The Impermanence of New Labour" to The Blair Agenda, (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996) and "Waking up to New Times" to The Moderniser's Dilemma, (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996), both edited by Mark Perryman; "Herbert Read and Englishness" to Herbert Read Reassessed, (Liverpool University Press, 1998), edited by David Goodway; and "No Longer “Ourselves Alone” in Northern Ireland" to British Cultural Studies, edited by David Morley and Kevin Robins (Oxford University Press, 2001). He is the author of English Imaginaries: Anglo-British Approaches to Modernity (1999), which brings together studies of Nancy Cunard, J B Priestley, Pete Townshend, Vivienne Westwood, David Dabydeen and Mark Wallinger; Moscow Gold (2013), coauthored with Paul Anderson, a history of the relations between the Soviet Union and the British left; Playing Possum (2017), an intertextual mystery placing T S Eliot in Whitstable in the 1920s (shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness prize); and Radio Joan, a novel exploring the relationship between wireless and fascism, through interviews with a former lover of Lord Haw Haw and her three radio sets(2021). The latter three titles are all published by the Ipswich-based independent press Aaaargh. Davey's third novel, Tooth-Pull of St Dunstan - a memoir of a dentist active for seven centuries - will be published by Henningham Family Press in March 2024.