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Kevin Davey (born 1957) is a British author of experimental literary fiction.

He is the author of English Imaginaries: Anglo-British Approaches to Modernity(1999), which brings together studies of Nancy Cunard, J B Priestley, Pete Townshend, Vivienne Westwood, David Dabydeen and Mark Wallinger; Moscow Gold (2013), coauthored with Paul Anderson, a history of the relations between the Soviet Union and the British left; Playing Possum (2017), an intertextual mystery placing T S Eliot in Whitstable in the 1920s (shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness prize ; Radio Joan, a novel exploring the relationship between wireless and fascism, through interviews with a former lover of Lord Haw Haw and her three radios (2021); and Tooth-Pull of St Dunstan's (forthcoming), the 700 year memoir of a dentist.

Educated at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Davey was the chair of the Socialist Society and the Socialist Conference in the mid 1980s, a member of the Charter 88 team, and a contributor to Tribune, the New Statesman, Liber, Red Pepper, and business publications before becoming editor of New Times (1999-2000). As a member of the Signs of the Times group in the 1990s he contributed ‘The Impermanence of New Labour’ to The Blair Agenda, (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996) and ‘Waking up to New Times’ to The Moderniser’s Dilemma, (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996), both edited by Mark Perryman; ‘Herbert Read and Englishness’ to Herbert Read Reassessed, (Liverpool University Press, 1998), edited by David Goodway; and ‘No Longer “Ourselves Alone” in Northern Ireland’ to British Cultural Studies, edited by David Morley and Kevin Robins (Oxford University Press, 2001). After teaching in higher and further education, and a senior management role at Hackney Community College, Davey became the director of innovation, investment and incubation at the Innovatory in Shoreditch from 1999-2013. Since that date he has been a consultant and business analyst for tech start ups, investors and grant givers, social enterprises, shared workspace providers and charities across the UK. His research into seventeenth century Quaker history in and around Saffron Walden led to a British Association for Local History award in 2018. He lives in Whitstable, Kent.