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With the publication of her debut novel, Nest of Vipers, a book that would become a celebrated international bestseller, Linda Davies launched a new genre and a new career. But long before the global book deals and stellar reviews in the New York Times, Linda was logging 80 hour work weeks as one of the first women investment bankers in the City of London. At nights and weekends, she’d squeeze in time working on her first novel.

Born in Scotland and raised in South Wales, Linda inhaled books as child and dreamed of becoming a writer. But she was the daughter of an economist and a homemaker, and therefore, raised to be practical. So, after reading PPE at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (where she was awarded the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for journalism) she went into investment banking instead. For the next eight years she worked in the City of London where she saved her running away money. One day, to her horror, she figured out a way to commit the perfect financial crime. After considering it for 3 seconds, she opted to instead write a novel about it.

18 months later, she decided to confront reality and test whether it really had been wise to give up her day job. She pitched her book to an agent… A week later he presented her with a stunning book deal that would see Nest of Vipers published in over 30 territories and optioned by MGM Studios. Since publishing Nest of Vipers, Linda Davies has gone on to publish twelve more books, seven for adults and five for children, which collectively have sold millions of copies and won various awards.

She has lived in Peru and the Middle East with her husband and three children. In 2005, in what could have been ripped from the pages of her own books, she and her husband were kidnapped, interrogated and held prisoner in Iran. She went on to write about this experience and what she learned from it in her first work of non-fiction, Kidnapped.

Linda’s fast-paced page turners explore risk, identity, temptation and who we really are, when the things we value most have been taken away.

She lives near the sea in Suffolk with her family and two Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

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Linda’s author biography in translation:

Dutch

Linda Davies

Linda Davies studeerde in Oxford en werkte voor grote banken in de City of London en op Wall Street. Haar debuut De bank werd met gejuich ontvangen als een zeldzame blik achter de schermen van de keiharde financiële wereld. Na dit succes volgden De deal, De jungle, De vlakte, De klip en Ark Storm, die ook allemaal internationale bestsellers werden.

French

Linda Davies

Linda Davies a étudié les sciences politiques et l’économie à l’Université d’Oxford, puis a travaillé sept ans dans le monde de la banque d’investissements. Elle a récemment passé trois ans au Pérou avant de revenir s’installer à l’Angleterre. Elle est l’auteur de cinq thrillers parus chez Grasset: L’Initiée, Quelque chose de sauvage, Les Miroirs sauvages, En ultime recours et Dans la Fournaise.

German

Linda Davies

Linda Davies geboren 1963, arbeitete nach ihrem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studium in Oxford als Brokerin an der Wall Street in New York und als Devisenhändlerin bei verschiedenen Instituten, bevor sie sich 1992 ganz aus dem Börsengeschäft zurückzog, nach Peru ging und als Schriftstellerin arbeitete. Ihre Romane »Das Schlangennest«, »Die Drachenhöhle«, »Die Löwengrube«, »Das Sonnentor« und »Die Abrechnung« waren internationale Bestseller.

Awards and achievements

Journalism

Linda also writes for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Guardian newspapers, as well as the National Theatre.

Linda Davies’s books on Goodreads
Longbow Girl
reviews: 125
ratings: 667 (avg rating 3.86)
Nest of Vipers
reviews: 25
ratings: 216 (avg rating 3.40)
Ark Storm
reviews: 33
ratings: 142 (avg rating 3.73)
Wilderness of Mirrors
reviews: 6
ratings: 94 (avg rating 3.57)
Something Wild
reviews: 6
ratings: 71 (avg rating 3.54)