Books by Carys Davies and Complete Book Reviews

Carys Davies. Biblioasis (Consortium, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-77196-139-4
Former journalist Davies’s second collection of short stories, following Some New Ambush, is a perfectly formed gem that won the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award after it was first published in the U.K. The 17 stories travel...
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Carys Davies. Scribner, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7934-1
In her transfixing first novel, Davies (author of the story collection The Redemption of Galen Pike) tells a stark story about exploration and extinction on the American continent. Driven by wanderlust to leave his small British village, Cy Bellman...
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Carys Davies. Scribner, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-1-982144-83-8
Davies follows up West with a stunning, understated novel set in a former British hill station in contemporary Tamil Nadu, India. Hilary Byrd, a 51-year-old British former librarian who lost his job following a mental breakdown and rues the “tapping
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Carys Davies. Scribner, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-66803-066-0
A minister’s conscience is tested in the perceptive and beautiful latest from Davies (The Mission House). In 1847 Scotland, John Fergusen has recently broken from the Church of Scotland as part of a movement to form the Free Church, which aims to be
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