Michael Davies began his career as a newspaper journalist, going on to edit numerous publications. Since moving into fiction, his writing has appeared on stage, screen, radio, the printed page and online.
 
Davies’s debut play, Rasputin’s Mother, won the Bristol Old Vic playwriting competition and he has continued to write for the stage. Alongside the composer Michael Blore, he wrote the book and lyrics for Tess – The Musical, workshopped at the RSC’s studio venue The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, while his irreverent Shakespearean mash-up MacHamLear toured the UK and Ireland.
 
He has written narrative non-fiction for television including the chart-topping Netflix series Meet, Marry, Murder and his poetry and short stories have also been published, including two poems commissioned for #HumansOfCov, part of Coventry’s City of Culture project.
 
In 2018 he was invited by Desmond Bagley’s publishers HarperCollins to work on a manuscript that had been discovered in the Bagley archive in Boston, Massachusetts. His ‘curation’ of the novel led to its publication the following year under the title Domino Island. The book’s protagonist, Bill Kemp, was described by the American author Jeffrey Deaver as ‘part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe and all hero’, and Davies has subsequently written two further Kemp thrillers for HarperCollins – Outback, to celebrate Bagley’s centenary, and Thin Ice, due for publication in 2024.