{"product_id":"the-travellers-and-other-stories-carys-davies-9781925240764","title":"The Travellers and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpare, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carys Davies","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48452391174387,"sku":"9781925240764","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781925240764.jpg?v=1769800032","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-travellers-and-other-stories-carys-davies-9781925240764","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}