{"product_id":"the-travellers-and-other-stories","title":"The Travellers and Other Stories","description":"Carys Davies' short story collections \u003ci\u003eSome New Ambush\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Redemption of Galen Pike\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor Award), now published in a single volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining two collections - \u003ci\u003eSome New Ambush \u003c\/i\u003eand Frank O'Connor Award-winner \u003ci\u003eThe Redemption of Galen Pike - The Travellers and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of exceptional talent and original vision.","brand":"Carys Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516767109181,"sku":null,"price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925240764.jpg?v=1787572463","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-travellers-and-other-stories","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}