David G Bailey

David was born in Lincolnshire and mainly schooled in the Isle of Ely, also studying in the Fens and the Black Forest. He has lived in the USA, Caribbean and South America as well as the UK. Currently based in the Midlands, he travels to write reports on insurance markets around the world.

David’s debut publication in 2021 was Seventeen, a football fantasy adventure novel aimed at and beyond young adults. Them Roper Girls (2022) returned to a world more recognisably our own, tracing in their own voices the lives of four sisters over more than sixty years from their 1950s childhood. A husband of a Roper sister takes centre stage in Them Feltwell Boys (2023). With the same gritty realism and sometimes dark humour found in its predecessor, this follows Ray Roden’s crude attempts at teenage love in counterpoint to his cynical womanising as an adult. A third contemporary novel, The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine: Last Man Standing (2025), is a fierce examination of relationships between baby boomers and with their previous and succeeding generations during recent years including those of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Sunny Side of the House (2024, 'a whirlwind of humour, heartache and childhood revelations') was a first venture into non-fiction in another series, When Life Gives You Strawberries – Memories of a Fenland Boy. The origin story of Seventeen appears within the clear-eyed narrative of a 1960s boyhood in East Anglia. David's 2026 instalment of memories, Wendy, picks up his story in the late 1970s, when his first job as a graduate takes him to the Midlands. His courting of the titular Wendy provides a richly textured, pacy narrative. Professional development and personal losses are detailed with the gritty realism and caustic humour praised in his fiction.

To read more of and about DavidGBailey’s work, including a quarterly newsletter and new content daily comprising extracts from diaries and other writing over more than fifty years, please visit the website in his name.