Murray Davies is a Welsh author and journalist.

He was born into a mining family in South Wales. He won a scholarship to UCW Aberystwyth where he studied international politics, followed by an MA in First World War poetry. He worked for the Daily Mail and Mirror Group as a reporter and feature writer. After twenty years as a journalist, he became a novelist. His novel, Collaborator, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2003.^[1] His other works include The Devils Handshake, Dogs on the Street, Samson Option and The Drumbeat Of Jimmy Sands.

Davies lives in Wiltshire.