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Gallows Pole

Myers, Benjamin
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526659583
Publisert
2023-07-06
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Myers, Benjamin

Biografisk notat

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

Gallows Pole

Myers, Benjamin
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Myers, Benjamin
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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One of my books of the year … It’s the best thing Myers has done

Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year

A windswept, brutal tale of eighteenth-century Yorkshire told in starkly beautiful prose<i></i>

Guardian

A brutal tale told with an original, muscular voice

The Times, summer reads picks 2018

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<b>Powerful, visceral </b>writing, historical fiction at its best. <b>Benjamin Myers is one to watch</b>

Pat Barker, Guardian

A <b>phenomenal</b> and<b> highly energised </b>novel

Sebastian Barry

____________________ Soon to be a TV series co-produced by the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ ‘Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch’ - Pat Barker ‘Phenomenal’ - Sebastian Barry ‘Superb’ - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley’s empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year … It’s the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year
Les mer
Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize. ‘Historical fiction at its best’ Pat Barker. ‘Phenomenal’ Sebastian Barry. ‘Superb’ The Times
The award-winning novel from Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize, a Roger Deakin Award, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and was selected as a Book of the Year by the Guardian and the Big Issue, among others
Les mer

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One of my books of the year … It’s the best thing Myers has done

Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year

A windswept, brutal tale of eighteenth-century Yorkshire told in starkly beautiful prose<i></i>

Guardian

A brutal tale told with an original, muscular voice

The Times, summer reads picks 2018

Se alle

<b>Powerful, visceral </b>writing, historical fiction at its best. <b>Benjamin Myers is one to watch</b>

Pat Barker, Guardian

A <b>phenomenal</b> and<b> highly energised </b>novel

Sebastian Barry

____________________ Soon to be a TV series co-produced by the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ ‘Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch’ - Pat Barker ‘Phenomenal’ - Sebastian Barry ‘Superb’ - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley’s empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year … It’s the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year
Les mer
Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize. ‘Historical fiction at its best’ Pat Barker. ‘Phenomenal’ Sebastian Barry. ‘Superb’ The Times
The award-winning novel from Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize, a Roger Deakin Award, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and was selected as a Book of the Year by the Guardian and the Big Issue, among others
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526659583
Publisert
2023-07-06
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Myers, Benjamin

Biografisk notat

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

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