Andrew Davies has written a variety of humour books for Anova including When I Were A Lad (with sales now in excess of 100,000), When I Were A School Lad (2010) and When I Were A Nipper (2011). He is also the ghost writer for Ivor Grump, in the Grumpy Handbook series and sometimes doubles as Captain William Featherstone-Dawes, author of Those Were The Days: Golf and Those Were The Days: Football. He has written on a variety of subjects including cat and dog body language and is the author of the National Trust's popular introductory guide to beekeeping.

About the Author

Andrew Davies graduated from Wye College, the agricultural college of London University, in 1979 with a degree in Rural Environmental Studies. He was introduced to beekeeping by a pig-farming friend and has kept bees since 1991.