Pete Davies Explained

Pete Davies is an English author of history and sports.

Career

He wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age about the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, for which Davies visited sites along the Lincoln Highway.^{[1] [2]} His newspaper clippings are part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.^[3]

Davies' All Played Out, an eyewitness account of the England men's football team at the 1990 World Cup,^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} was adapted into One Night in Turin, a documentary film, in 2010.^[8] The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".^[9]

In 1994–95, Davies turned his attentions to women's football and spent the season with Doncaster Belles while writing I Lost my Heart to the Belles.

Davies settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where in 2010 he worked at the local Sainsbury's supermarket and had a season ticket for Huddersfield Town.^[10]

Bibliography

Novels

• (1986) Last Election
• (1989) Dollarville
• (2017) Playlist

Non-fiction

• (1990) All Played Out
• (1992) Storm Country: A Journey to the Heart of America
• (1994) Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94
• (1996) I Lost My Heart to The Belles
• (1998) This England
• (1998) Mad Dogs and English Women
• (1999) Catching Cold; published in the United States as The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
• (2001) The Devil's Music: Into the Eye of the Hurricane
• (2002) American Road

Film adaptations

• 2010 One Night in Turin — directed by James Erskine

Notes and References

1. News: The resourceful traveler. . . August 21, 2002 . 2009-01-17 .
2. News: Country Roads, Take Us Home . https://web.archive.org/web/20110525142253/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/178946581.html?dids=178946581:178946581&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+15,+2002&author=JONATHAN+KIRSCH&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=WESTWORDS%3B+Country+Roads,+Take+Us+Home%3B+AMERICAN+ROAD:+The+Story+of+an+Epic+Transcontinental+Journey+at+the+Dawn+of+the+Motor+Age,+By+Pete+Davies,+Henry+Holt:+276+pp.,+$26+AMBOS+NOGALES:+Intimate+Portraits+of+the+U.S.-Mexico+Border,+Photographs+by+Maeve+Hickey,+Text+by+Lawrence+Taylor,+School+of+American+Research+Press:+138+pp.,+$17.95&pqatl=google . dead . 25 May 2011 . . September 15, 2002 . 2009-01-17 . Jonathan . Kirsch.
3. Web site: Eisenhower Presidential Library. eisenhower.archives.gov.
4. Dawson. Tom. One Night In Turin. Total Film. 27 April 2010. 30 June 2014.
5. Book: One Night in Turin: The Inside Story of a World Cup that Changed our Footballing Nation Forever [Paperback]. 15 April 2010. .
6. News: Book Review: All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia '90 – Pete Davies (also published as One Night in Turin). The Sports Book Review. 28 January 2014. 30 June 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140309050801/http://thesportsbookreview.com/2014/01/28/book-review-all-played-out-the-full-story-of-italia-90-pete-davies-also-published-as-one-night-in-turin/. 9 March 2014.
7. News: Quinn. Anthony. One Night in Turin (15). https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/one-night-in-turin-15-1965330.html . 25 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 7 May 2010. 30 June 2014.
8. Jenkins. David. One Night in Turin (15). Time Out. 4 May 2010. 30 June 2014.
9. News: Wilson. Paul. This Man Works For Sainsbury's. He Also Wrote The Best Football Book Ever. 14 April 2015. Esquire (UK Edition). 14 June 2014.
10. News: Huddersfield writer Pete Davies sees World Cup story brought to cinema screens. 14 April 2015. Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 11 May 2010.