<p>Dan Roberts has a troubled past, anger management issues and a backpack named after an abducted heiress. A chance encounter with Amber, a free-spirited Australian girl, seems to give his solitary, nomadic life a new sense of direction. But when she doesn&rsquo;t respond to his emails, the only direction he&rsquo;s heading is down&hellip;</p><p>&#39;The Baggage Carousel&#39; is a visceral yet humane travelogue of a novel about life&#39;s great let-downs; family, work and love. Dan Roberts is destined to go down as one of fiction&#39;s great solitary men, equal parts Iain Banks&#39; Frank, Camus&#39; Meursault and Seuss&#39; The Grinch.</p>