Julian Davies
Call Me
Finlay lloyd, 2018
Call Me is Julian Davies’ seventh novel. Tangentially related to his previous social satire, Crow Mellow, this is a contemporary Australian story of thwarted young love, and an ambitious attempt to take us deep within the lives and experience of two perceptive yet conflicted teenagers in their last year of school. If love beset by complication is a familiar pattern in fiction, then, in this story, complication dances beguilingly between reality and absurdity.
About the Author
Julian Davies is is the author of seven novels, he has also written various stories, and essays, including Lost Art (2012), a collaboration with Phil Day on cultural dysfunction in the art world. The book, Backlash – Australia’s conflict of values over live exports, (2016) was written in partnership with Bidda Jones, Chief Scientist at RSPCA Australia.
Davies’ novels have been shortlisted for many prizes: Revival House for the National Book Council Award and the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book, among others, Moments of Pleasure for the Talking Book of the Year award, The Beholder for the NSW Premiers Award, and The Boy for the Victorian Premiers Award. The Boy has been translated into French, Dutch and Turkish. Crow Mellow (2014), a social satire illustrated by nearly 400 drawings by Phil Day, is the first in a trilogy of novels. The second in the series is Call Me (2018).
