**Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2019**; The astonishing new
work of non-fiction from the prize-winning author of The Gallows
Pole and The Offing.; Under the Rock is about badgers, balsam,
history, nettles, mythology, moorlands, mosses, poetry, bats, wild
swimming, slugs, recession, floods, logging, peacocks, community,
apples, asbestos, quarries, geology, industrial music, owls, stone
walls, farming, anxiety, relocation, the North, woodpiles,
folklore, landslides, ruins, terriers, woodlands, ravens, dales,
valleys, walking, animal skulls, trespassing, crows, factories,
maps, rain - lots of rain - and a great big rock.; ______________;
'Extraordinary, elemental ... never less than compelling: this is a
wild, dark grimoire of a book' - TLS; 'Exceptionally engaging ...
beguiling ... this is a startling, unclassifiable book' - Stuart
Kelly, The Scotsman; 'Compelling ... admirable and engrossing.
Myers writes of the rain with a poet's eye worthy of Hughes' -
Erica Wagner, New Statesman; 'A bone-tingling book' - Richard
Benson, author of The Valley and The Farm; 'A truly elemental read
from which I emerged subtly changed... It has all the makings of a
classic' - Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country and Owl Sense
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