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Reviews


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Press coverage
Interviews
Women don’t understand the economy, and other myths
Power + Presence + Position podcast with Eleanor Beaton and Katrine Marcal
Interview with Lesley Dolphin
BBC Radio Suffolk (listen from 51:07), 8 June 2021
Fierce Feminine Leadership podcast
Eleanor Beaton interviews Linda Davies
Intrepid Woman: Linda Davies, Banker to Bestselling Author
Interview with Linda Davies for The Glass Hammer, 8 April 2016
Fighting Talk: Catherine Larner meets author Linda Davies, who survived kidnap and finds solace in Southwold
Interview with Linda Davies for Suffolk Magazine, 1 December 2015
‘It was the machine gun of its age,’ expert longbower explains how humble weapon won the Battle of Agincourt
Interview with Linda Davies for ITV News, 29 October 2015
My father taught me how to fight and a lot of other ‘boy things’ too
Interview with Linda Davies for East Anglian Daily Times, 2 September 2015
“I’m lots of different people depending on what novel I am writing…”
Interview with Linda Davies for Teen Librarian, 31 August 2015
Suffolk/Dubai: Mother of three taken hostage in Iran relives the terrifying experience in new book
Interview with Linda Davies for East Anglian Daily Times, 16 October 2014
Dubai-based author the next J K Rowling?
Interview with Linda Davies for Gulf News, 15 June 2012
Arrested by Iranian gunboats
Interview with Linda Davies in the East Anglian Daily Times, 13 May 2010
Travel Style: Linda Davies
Interview with Linda Davies for Johnny Jet
Djinn’s a tonic
Interview with Linda Davies for Time Out Dubai, 28 October 2009
How author’s kidnapping tale turned into reality
Interview with Linda Davies for Wales Online, 2 October 2009
‘Dubai’s Harry Potter’ series continues
Interview with Linda Davies for Time Out Dubai, 3 December 2008
Best of time, worst of times: Linda Davies
Interview with Linda Davies for The Times, 8 December 2002
In the news
Iran frees British couple after 13-day detention
The Guardian, 11 November 2005
Captured Britons released in Iran
BBC News, 11 November 2005
Straw `very glad’ British couple released by Iran
Payvand Iran News, 11 November 2005
Britons seized at sea and held hostage by Iran
The Daily Mail, 12 November 2005
Writer tells of Iran kidnap ordeal
Wales Online, 12 November 2005
A wrong turn in Persian Gulf made me a hostage
The Sunday Express, 5 October 2014
Journalism by Linda Davies
Finance & banking
The perfect crime
Article by Linda Davies for The Independent
Merchants of menace
Article by Linda Davies
Fraud – a class act
Programme note by Linda Davies for the National Theatre
Greed and Women Beware Women
Programme note by Linda Davies for the National Theatre
History & fiction
Why the Battle of Agincourt is still important today
Article by Linda Davies for The Guardian, 25 October 2015
A Longbow is for Life
Article by Linda Davies for Historia Magazine
Lady Killers
Article by Linda Davies for Harper’s Bazaar
Kidnap & the Middle East
Kidnapped at sea
Article by Linda Davies for The Times, 27 September 2014
Experience: I was held hostage
Article by Linda Davies for The Guardian, 24 October 2009
“We set sail on a perfect summer’s morning. Within hours we were in fear of our lives”
Article by Linda Davies for The Daily Telegraph, 12 November 2005
If fiction come true… Careful what you write
Article by Linda Davies for The Aularian