Description
Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award. 'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANE
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, the Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benmyers.com / @BenMyers1
Reviews
Intimate and elemental ... Myers has the potential to become a true tragedian of the fells * Guardian *
This bitter, alarming, occasionally visionary novel of the British wilderness is likely to linger in the mind for some time * New Statesman *
Myers is quite simply an excellent and already accomplished writer. His prose is taut, confident, professionally polished but at the same time maintaining a sense of rustic and unrefined authenticity, that which is truly hewn -- Sarah Hall
I don't know if I have encountered such a strong, engaging character in a book for some time: this is startling, sublime writing * Caught by the River *
A story that will grip you to the final word and a tour de force * Loud & Quiet *
A gripping ride through an imagined heart of Lake District darkness. I couldn't have writ it better myself * Hamilton, British Sea Power *
Wonderful - tough and generous and beautiful -- Will Atkins
Book Information
ISBN 9781526611215
Author Benjamin Myers
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 174g