About Davison Books

Julia Davison is an entrepreneur, author and consultant with more than three decades of experience in the global travel industry. She has founded, scaled and successfully sold two businesses, including the award-winning digital learning platform Online Travel Training.

Following the sale of OTT in 2025, Julia turned her focus toward writing, research and consultancy combining commercial insight with a lifelong fascination for story, legacy and human connection.

Her debut book, Road Trip to Whanga, is a narrative non-fiction memoir told exactly as it unfolded. Both deeply personal and quietly mysterious, it follows a journey through grief, family history and a series of uncanny events that challenge the boundaries between coincidence and something more.

Through her writing, Julia explores love, loss and the possibility that those we have lost may not be as far away as we think. She hopes her work resonates with anyone navigating grief and with those curious about what may lie beyond the world we can see.

Julia is a member of the Society of Authors

Three sisters. One road trip. Countless signs from the man they loved.

When Julia flies to New Zealand to settle her father’s affairs, she expects grief, paperwork, and a practical farewell, not a journey across the country marked by uncanny timing and mysterious little signs at every turn. 

Back in her home country, she’s pulled into a tangle of family tensions and a lawyer that’s far from trustworthy….and that’s before anything unusual even starts happening.

As she and her sister Caroline drive through their father’s hometown and revisit the places woven into their family’s history, strange coincidences begin to unfold - messages that appear suddenly, detours that lead exactly where they need to be, and a photograph that reveals its secret only when the moment is right.

Funny, heartfelt and mysterious, Road trip to Whanga is a true story about love, loss and the surprising ways a father can walk beside his daughters long after he’s gone.

Julia is currently researching her next book 

'Sail away to start again'.   

The book explores the remarkable true story of Julia's three-times-great grandparents, who left Somerset in 1842 to start a new life in New Zealand. Drawing on surviving diary entries, press clippings, and a detailed family history, the book will follow their perilous voyage and the immense challenges of building a home, community, and future from literally nothing. It’s a story of hope, hardship, tragedy, triumph and an epic reimagining of one family’s leap into the unknown.