List Of Writers

DAVIES, CARYS

Born in Wales, Carys Davies studied Modern Languages at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and has worked as a journalist in London, New York and Chicago. Carys won second prize in the inaugural 2002 Orange Harpers & Queen Short Story Competition, second prize in the Asham Award, and runners-up prizes in the 2005 Bridport Prize and the 2006 Fish Short Histories Prize. Her stories have appeared in prize anthologies, in The London Magazine, and in a variety of U.S. literary magazines including New Letters, Kestrel and G.W. Review. She now lives in Lancaster with her husband and four children. Some New Ambush is her first story collection.

Some New Ambush (Salt, 2007) is on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. Click here for more information.

Selected Publications:
Some New Ambush (Salt, 2007)



Some New Ambush (Salt, 2007)

Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness, they all lie in wait for Davies’ characters in their startlingly different worlds: a dry cleaner’s shop in contemporary Chicago, a mining town in South Wales in the sixties, a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern England. Shot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path often when we least expect them, and in places where we never thought to look. They tell of the mistakes we make along the way, and of how we try to deal with the whole difficult, unpredictable business. There is the boy who steps into his best friend’s clothes in a desperate bid to fulfill his dreams, the man who comes up with an amazing new invention to win the heart of the woman he loves, the bored young wife doomed to live on an island where everything is red, the middle-aged woman who finds a baby in the sand and passes it off as her own.

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