[1] Zahavi's first novel, Dirty Weekend (1991), caused a media storm on publication: critical reaction was extreme and polarised.
A half-page article in The Sunday Times questioning the book's morality and the author's sanity set the tone for much of the press comment that followed.
[2] The book was attacked by Salman Rushdie,[3] defended by Naomi Wolf,[4] and analysed at length in both the broadsheet and popular press.
Zahavi has a screen credit as co-writer[8] and appeared with Winner on an edition of the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark alongside, among others, the father of the so-called Yorkshire Ripper.
[9] Zahavi has written three further novels – True Romance (1994), Donna and the Fatman (1998), and Brighton Boy (2013) – which have been widely reviewed and translated.