...and  there was Helen Zahavi's hideous, kinky little revenge-novel of violence done to men
Salman Rushdie

What is genuinely subversive - and therefore ritually punished - is writing like Zahavi's, writing that lets the animals finally speak
Naomi Wolf

Welcome to the website of Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend, True Romance and Donna And The Fatman.

All three novels provoked very strong - often outraged - reactions, and have been widely reviewed and translated.

Please click on the links at the top left for reviews, extracts and selected interviews, and to read about the Michael Winner movie of Dirty Weekend.