Tony Davis

Tony Davis lives in Sydney, Australia. He has had many jobs through the years, but they’ve all involved working with words. He has been a book author, publisher, magazine editor and feature writer.

In recent years he has filled a variety of senior editorial roles at the Sydney Morning Herald – including senior writer, features editor and acting chief of staff – and has reported from around the world for that paper.

He left the Herald at the end of 2005 to realise his ambition to write books fulltime, though he still produces a weekly newspaper column and completes the occasional travel assignment (most recently walking the Headhunters Trail through the Borneo rainforest for a magazine feature).

Tony has produced high-quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, ranging from Lemon! a best-selling and hilarious book about the worst cars ever made, to F. Scott, Ernest and Me. This was a complex and eccentric literary memoir set in Paris and incorporating parallel fiction and non-fiction strands.

Tony has long been interested in knights and armour, and the legends and stories of the Middle Ages. He recently finished writing the fourth instalment in the popular Roland Wright series for primary school age readers.

The first Roland Wright novel was included in the ‘Notable Books of 2007’ list by the Children’s Book Council, while the Sunday Age described it as ‘perfect for early readers … cheeky and charming.’

The third Roland Wright at the Joust has just gone on sale and the series will be launched in the US by Delacorte Press during 2009.

Tony is currently working on a literary novel and the fifth volume of the Roland Wright series.