Michael Davies began his career as a newspaper journalist and editor and a professional theatre critic. Since moving into fiction, his writing has appeared on stage, screen, radio, the printed page and online. His debut play won a national competition, and subsequent work includes Tess - The Musical, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A lifelong Desmond Bagley fan, he completed for publication Bagley's 'lost' manuscript, Domino Island, nearly forty years after the author's death, followed by his own original novel, Outback, in 2023.