YA NOVEL
Thin Air
Avril-Dawn is a young foreign affairs officer on a document transfer job in Washington D.C when she becomes involved in intrigue where a key bilateral treaty and the welfare of the nation of Jamaica is as ephemeral as thin air.
Thin Air
Avril-Dawn is a young foreign affairs officer on a document transfer job in Washington D.C when she becomes involved in intrigue where a key bilateral treaty and the welfare of the nation of Jamaica is as ephemeral as thin air.
YA NOVEL
SOMETHING SPECIAL
Nearly sixteen years old, Cornelia has been sent to stay with a strict aunt as a form of correction for reckless disobedience. She is unrepentant and pursues the company of the attractive Jimmy Barnett, a young man with a ruthless reputation; but there is also Janvon Sewell, a boy who can lead her towards true maturity and salvation.
Chapter 1
SOMETHING SPECIAL
Nearly sixteen years old, Cornelia has been sent to stay with a strict aunt as a form of correction for reckless disobedience. She is unrepentant and pursues the company of the attractive Jimmy Barnett, a young man with a ruthless reputation; but there is also Janvon Sewell, a boy who can lead her towards true maturity and salvation.
Chapter 1
Short Story - My Boyfriend
A young woman decides that her relationship is not satisfying and an incident from her youth seems to be the key to understand why, but the only one who can help her to figure it out, is her boyfriend.
A young woman decides that her relationship is not satisfying and an incident from her youth seems to be the key to understand why, but the only one who can help her to figure it out, is her boyfriend.
Gwyneth Harold Davidson is a Jamaican novelist and short story writer. Harold Davidson writes short stories and novels that suit a young adult (YA) audience, and also general adult literature. Her literary awards have been for general adult literature, and her body of work is set in the Caribbean. She is also an experienced public relations practitioner.
Two of her fiction compilations have been produced for audio: the five-part aviation adventure series, Fly Guy; and Young Heroes, which was a collaborative project with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS).
She is a collaborator of the Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta which was held in Jamaica in 2011, 2012 and 2014.
Harold Davidson also writes journalism articles and she edited the newsletter of the Public Relations Society of Jamaica from 2009 - 2013. She enjoys the Caribbean lifestyle where her greatest challenge is growing flowers and vegetables in the backyard garden in Jamaica where she lives with her husband and their son.
Awards
Novel
Bad Girls in School (2007) Harcourt Education, Caribbean Writers Series
The behaviour of three high school juniors threatens to disrupt an entire school and they seemed doomed for expulsion until a soft heart librarian intervenes; and together they share a year of experiences that changes the courses of all of their lives.
Newspaper Fiction Series
Audio Drama
Two of her fiction compilations have been produced for audio: the five-part aviation adventure series, Fly Guy; and Young Heroes, which was a collaborative project with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS).
She is a collaborator of the Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta which was held in Jamaica in 2011, 2012 and 2014.
Harold Davidson also writes journalism articles and she edited the newsletter of the Public Relations Society of Jamaica from 2009 - 2013. She enjoys the Caribbean lifestyle where her greatest challenge is growing flowers and vegetables in the backyard garden in Jamaica where she lives with her husband and their son.
Awards
- JCDC 2002 Award for short story, Man of Honour
- JCDC 2002 Award of Merit for novel, Secret Identities of the Rio Minho
- Short Listed for the Una Marson Book Prize 2001 for collection of short stories, Here and Elsewhere
- Recipient of JCDC 2001, 2003, 2004 Literary Awards for short stories
- Recipient of JCDC 2002, 2003, 2005 Literary Awards for novels
- Short Listed for Vic Reid Prize for children 2007 for novel, Bad Girls in School
Novel
Bad Girls in School (2007) Harcourt Education, Caribbean Writers Series
The behaviour of three high school juniors threatens to disrupt an entire school and they seemed doomed for expulsion until a soft heart librarian intervenes; and together they share a year of experiences that changes the courses of all of their lives.
Newspaper Fiction Series
- Someone Special - a wilful teenage girl gets sent to Montego Bay to be reformed by her aunt, but instead gets caught up in the illicit narcotics trade before she is rescued by an unlikely hero. The Teen Herald - 10 episodes, 2004
- Fly Guy Part 1 stories of a Caribbean aviator – Reckless behaviour in street traffic causes a jet pilot to lose his job and he has to rebuild his reputation. He is able to rediscover his passion for flying through aviation escapades at the lowest level of his profession. The Gleaner’s Youth Link magazine – 4 episodes, 2010
- Radio Silence Part 2 of the Fly Guy aviation adventure series – A jet pilot helps his friend, a police detective, to solve the mystery of why cellular frequencies seem to be frequently blocked across the capital city. It brings them into danger, and back in contact with an old friend. The Gleaner’s Youth Link magazine – five, five-minute episodes, 2011
Audio Drama
- Fly Guy Part 1 of the aviation adventure series – four, five-minute episodes, 2010
- Young Heroes – alternate histories of seven of Jamaica’s national heroes – seven, five-minute episodes, 2013. This was co-produced with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) on the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the agency.
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