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The Travellers and Other Stories
Published 23 September 2015
ISBN 9781925240764
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 272pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00

The Travellers and Other Stories

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23 Sept 2015
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23 Sept 2015
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Carys Davies' short story collections Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor Award), now published in a single volume.

In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. On a red island in a rose-coloured sea, russet-haired women dream of a fisherman with hair black as night. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins visit a women's asylum, and the course of literary history is changed forever.

Spare, precise and charged with wit, these award-winning stories are set in places near, far and imaginary. Carys Davies takes us to a world where the lines between reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, madness and sanity begin to dissolve.

Combining two collections - Some New Ambush and Frank O'Connor Award-winner The Redemption of Galen Pike - The Travellers and Other Stories is a work of exceptional talent and original vision.
Published 23 September 2015
ISBN 9781925240764
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 272pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00

About the author

Carys Davies

Carys Davies’ debut novel, West, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner-up for the Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (published in Australia as the single collection The Travellers and Other Stories), which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She lives in Edinburgh.
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Praise for The Travellers and Other Stories

She can create a micro-world, which has reverberations beyond its size and scope, which is metaphysical

Sarah Hall

These stories are so unexpected and compelling it's difficult to find one single word to praise them. Carys Davies deserves every accolade she has received

Elizabeth Harrower