Brontë family
Davies has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. Her non-fiction work includes titles on the Brontë family, John Milton and Henry Vaughan. Davies' first novel, "Boy Blue", was published by The Women's Press in 1987, and won the Fawcett Society Book Prize later that year. In 2001, Davies' novel "The Element of Water" was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It went on to win the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year award.