The inspiration for the BBC TV series. Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize. ‘Historical fiction at its best’ Pat Barker. ‘Phenomenal’ Sebastian Barry. ‘Superb’ The Times
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
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
*Guardian*
A brutal tale told with an original, muscular voice
*The Times, summer reads picks 2018*
Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best.
Benjamin Myers is one to watch
*Pat Barker, Guardian*
A phenomenal and highly energised novel
*Sebastian Barry*
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