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Cuddy
Benjamin Myers
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R331
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**Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer,
Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman** ‘An epic the north has long
deserved’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A sensational piece of storytelling
… A singular and significant achievement’ GUARDIAN
‘Marvellous, artful, enchanted’ DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Cements
Myers’s standing as one of our finest, and most deftly
imaginative, writers' I NEWS The triumphant new novel from the
Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The
Offing Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of
the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of
England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real
historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy
straddles historical eras - from the first Christian-slaying Viking
invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a
contemporary England defined by class and austerity. Along the way
we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and
labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their
ancestors and down the ages. And all the while at the centre sits
Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around
this place of pilgrimage – their dreams, desires, connections and
communities.
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The Offing (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of
warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous'
Max Porter, author of Lanny
A Times Book of the Year
An i Book of the Year
A Reading Agency Book of the Year
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'
An Observer Pick for 2019
One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on
foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he
makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the
former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an
eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage
facing out to sea.
Staying with Dulcie, Robert's life opens into one of rich food,
sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds,
yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that
will profoundly alter their futures.
'In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and
enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field ...
A memorable hymn to beauty' OBSERVER 'The pleasures of this
bountiful novel are like a glass of cool water on a parched summer
day' THE TIMES England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot
summer, two very different men – traumatized Falklands veteran
Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a
clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. Under
cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England
in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious
patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more
ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult
international sensation – and that an unlikely and beautiful
friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.
____________________ Soon to be a six-part 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
As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur
in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater.
As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace
attempts to tell the story, but finds the very nature of truth
brought into question. He turns to disgraced detective James
Brindle for help. When further attacks occur the shattered
community becomes the focus of an accelerating media that favours
immediacy over truth. Murder and myth collide in a folk-crime story
about place, identity and the tangled lives of those who never
leave.
'Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning
Blue, he has created a whole new genre: folk crime ... this is by
turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable' PAUL KINGSNORTH In the
depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl,
Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage
dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be
obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more
relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has
sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up
a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the
chance of redemption. Darker forces are at work than either man has
realised. On a farm high above the hamlet, Steven Rutter, a
destitute loner, harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened
Brindle. Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places
better than him. As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of
the case from the tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads
first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local
celebrity who has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.
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Male Tears (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R281
R209
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'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times'
David Peace In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that
brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays
bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure,
its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers
and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers
and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these
unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted,
era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.
**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2022** **The BBC Radio 2
Book Club pick** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** 'In
this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and
enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field ...
A memorable hymn to beauty' OBSERVER 'The pleasures of this
bountiful novel are like a glass of cool water on a parched summer
day' THE TIMES 'A spirited and anarchic novel... a roiling,
rollicking crop-circle folk tale' GUARDIAN England, 1989. Over the
course of a burning hot summer, two very different men -
traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone
- set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an
extraordinary project. Under cover of darkness, the two men
traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop
circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears
on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find
that their work has become a cult international sensation - and
that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the
wheat ripens from green to gold. Moving and exhilarating, tender
and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel
about the futility of war, the destruction of the English
countryside, class inequality - and the power of beauty to heal
trauma and fight power. 'Brilliantly constructed and steeped in
rural atmosphere' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best summer books of 2022
Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers'
Award
'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANE
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the
landscape of a changing rural England.
When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in
her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Chased
through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights
starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and
hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities. An American
Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern
England, Beastings is a sparse and poetic novel about morality,
motherhood and corruption.
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the
award-winning author of The Gallows Pole
John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by
his boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his
life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead
pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family
name is mud. When he attempts to trade prejudice and parole officers
for the solace of the rural landscape, Mac's bloody downfall threatens
John-John's very survival.
**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
Do You Believe? Today we're flooded with opinions and ideas. And
they all might be interesting, but are they true? Would you die for
them? Benjamin Myers re-introduces the Apostles' Creed. He helps us
to see how difficult and counter-cultural the Creed really is. It
doesn't give us sweet, empty words. It's a faith that demands we
die so that we might live. In the early church many converts died
for their faith. So they needed to have a good idea what they might
die for! Early church pastors and theologians used the Apostles'
Creed as the essential guide to the basics of the Christian life.
The Apostles' Creed has united Christians from different times,
different places, and different traditions. The truths proclaimed
in the Creed are eternal. Will you trust them?
'Cracking ... Richly distinctive stories, with unnerving, dark
plotlines' Independent 'One of the most singular, moving and
crucial voices of our times' David Peace In Male Tears, a debut
collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of
work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its
fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden
tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims,
gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret
passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful
stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it
means to be a man.
`A bone-tingling book' - Richard Benson; Carved from the land above
Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag
overlooking wooded slopes and weed-tangled plateaus. To many it is
unremarkable; to others it is a doomed place where 18th-century
thieves hid out, where the town tip once sat, and where suicides
leapt to their deaths. Its brooding form presided over the early
years of Ted Hughes, who called Scout Rock `my spiritual midwife .
. . both the curtain and backdrop to existence'.; Into this
beautiful, dark and complex landscape steps Benjamin Myers, asking:
are unremarkable places made remarkable by the minds that map them?
Seeking a new life and finding solace in nature's power of renewal,
Myers excavates stories both human and elemental. The result is a
lyrical and unflinching investigation into nature, literature,
history, memory and the meaning of place in modern Britain.; 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.
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Millstone Grit (Paperback)
Glyn Hughes; Introduction by Benjamin Myers
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R350
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Millstone Grit takes the form of a fifty mile walk through the West
Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the industrial towns and
moors. Glyn Hughes had grown up in the Cheshire countryside but on
moving to the Pennines was deeply shocked by the impact of industry
on the natural world; but over time he found beauty in its special
landscapes and came to love the people who lived in them. In
Millstone Grit the author investigates the specific culture of
place - with chapters on Methodism and the Luddites, interviewing a
millworker, examining the awakening of an urban working-class
consciousness. Hughes is always observant, careful, poetic and
no-nonsense, this new edition will find readers keen to rediscover
his vision of the north.
About the Contributor(s): Benjamin Myers teaches theology at
Charles Sturt University's School of Theology in Sydney. He is
author of Milton's Theology of Freedom and Christ the Stranger: The
Theology of Rowan Williams. He also writes at Faith & Theology,
one of the world's most popular theology blogs.
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The Offing (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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Discovery Miles 4 430
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