The Travellers and Other Stories

By: Carys Davies

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Paperback | 23 September 2015 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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1.9 x 15.5 x 23.4

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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.

Industry Reviews

'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
`The Travellers and Other Stories is filled with tales as piquant and witty as they are suffused with tenderness and empathy.' * West Australian *

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