David Clement-Davies (born 6 January 1964) is a British author and sculptor. He is known for animal fantasy fiction The Sight, Fire Bringer and Fell (sequel to The Sight). Biography David Clement-Davies was born in 1964 and went to Westminster School and Edinburgh University where he read History and English Literature, specialising in the Italian Renaissance, and Russian Literature and Society. He began his writing career as a freelance travel journalist, and his first novel, Fire Bringer, was published in 1999. It was followed by The Sight and Fell. He has also written a musical, two adult novels, and is currently working on a play, set in the present and the 17th century, called Startled Anatomies, alongside his children's books. Clement-Davies lived in the Andalusia region of Spain, and in London. He now lives and works on sculpting in Pietrasanta, Italy, where he moved in 2017 with his dog Rascal. Bibliography Animal Fantasy Fiction Fire Bringer (1999) The Sight (2002) The Alchemists of Barbal (2005) The Telling Pool Fell (2007) Michaelangelo's Mouse The Blood Garden Scream of the White Bears (2019) Fire Bringer (1999) Fire Bringer is a novel about Rannoch, a red deer, born in ancient Scotland on the same night that his father was murdered. But Rannoch is no ordinary deer; he is special, for he bears a white mark on his forehead resembling an oak leaf. To the Herla, as the red deer called themselves, this white mark holds great meaning and power, for it was stated in a prophecy that the deer who was born with the mark would bring freedom to all Herla in the future, and that the bearer of the oak mark would have the ability to communicate with all animals. First however, Rannoch must survive. Bucks formerly brawled and fought for the leadership, but that way was erased completely, instead replaced by a Lord of Herds, Drail. His helper, Sgorr, who has militarised the herd by making the stags sharpen their horns, training and drilling the young bucks, and will take no resistance. He realises the threat Rannoch poses to his leadership. Rannoch escapes from the herd, but deep down in his heart, he knows that he must return, to unite the deer, and end Sgorr's reign of terror. Richard Adams, author of the classic Watership Down, called Fire Bringer 'one of the best anthropomorphic fantasies known to him'. It was long-listed