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Carys Davies’s debut novel West (2018) was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner up for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. Her second novel The Mission House was first published in the UK in 2020 where it was The Sunday Times 2020 Novel of the Year.

She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike, which won the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She is the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, a Northern Writers’ Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and is a member of the Folio Academy. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages.

Born in Wales, she grew up there and in the Midlands, lived and worked for twelve years in New York and Chicago, and now lives in Edinburgh.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
New and upcoming books
March 2024

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Novels
   West (2018)
   The Mission House (2020)
   Clear (2024)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Creed (2017)
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Carys Davies recommends
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Though the Bodies Fall (2023)
Noel O'Regan
"I was immediately drawn into O'Regan's delicately wrought debut by the tenderness he has for his characters, and by the quiet power that builds beneath the surface of his storytelling."
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Lost Believers (2023)
Irina Zhorov
"Lost Believers reads like a journey into the heart of a dark Siberian fairytale--Irina Zhorov a guide I trusted and believed in completely, and admired for the compassion she has for her characters, and for the earth itself."
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Natural History (2020)
Carlos Fonseca
"Fiercely intelligent and wildly imaginative--a fever dream of a novel, rich and strange."

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Anthologies containing stories by Carys Davies
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Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass
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Love (2012)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

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