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Cuddy: Benjamin Myers Cuddy
Benjamin Myers
R318 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**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.

The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825 (Hardcover): Benjamin Myer Brink The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825 (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myer Brink
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Perfect Golden Circle - Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022 (Paperback): Benjamin Myers The Perfect Golden Circle - Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022 (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R276 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R49 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825; Volume 1 (Hardcover): Benjamin Myer Brink The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myer Brink
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Offing (Paperback): Benjamin Myers The Offing (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers 1
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R297 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

The Gallows Pole (Paperback): Benjamin Myers The Gallows Pole (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R302 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

____________________ 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

Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams (Hardcover, New): Benjamin Myers Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams (Hardcover, New)
Benjamin Myers
R4,681 Discovery Miles 46 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an introduction to the thought of one of the most fascinating theologians and at the same time most controversial church leaders of our time. In contemporary theology, the work of Rowan Williams is virtually without parallel for its extraordinary diversity and complexity. His writings span the genres of poetry, history, literary criticism, spirituality, theology, ethics, and philosophy - yet this diverse body of work is apparently not unified by any overarching system or agenda. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of Williams' thought is a vigorous refusal of completeness and systematic closure. Nevertheless, this book will argue that the complex body of Williams' work is held together by a specific theological construal both of Christian language and of the church's founding event.

Heathcliff Adrift (Paperback): Benjamin Myers Heathcliff Adrift (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
R235 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R43 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Milton's Theology of Freedom (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers Milton's Theology of Freedom (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the centre of John Miltona (TM)s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a radical commitment to divine and human freedom. This study situates Paradise Lost within the context of post-Reformation theological controversy, and pursues the theological portrayal of freedom as it unfolds throughout the poem. The study identifies and explores the ways in which Milton is both continuous and discontinuous with the major post-Reformation traditions in his depiction of predestination, creation, free will, sin, and conversion. Miltona (TM)s deep commitment to freedom is shown to underlie his appropriation and creative transformation of a wide range of existing theological concepts.

Turning Blue (Paperback): Benjamin Myers Turning Blue (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R304 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R54 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

These Darkening Days (Paperback): Benjamin Myers These Darkening Days (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R302 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Salvation in My Pocket (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers Salvation in My Pocket (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers
R929 R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Save R169 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beastings (Paperback, New Edition): Benjamin Myers Beastings (Paperback, New Edition)
Benjamin Myers 1
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R296 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Male Tears (Paperback): Benjamin Myers Male Tears (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R270 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R50 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

The Perfect Golden Circle - Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022 (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers The Perfect Golden Circle - Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022 (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers
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R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**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

Pig Iron (Paperback, New Edition): Benjamin Myers Pig Iron (Paperback, New Edition)
Benjamin Myers 1
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R299 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Apostles' Creed - A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers The Apostles' Creed - A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers
R441 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R84 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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?

Male Tears (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers Male Tears (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers
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R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

Under the Rock - The Poetry of a Place (Hardcover): Benjamin Myers Under the Rock - The Poetry of a Place (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myers 1
R463 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R113 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

`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.

The Offing (Paperback): Benjamin Myers The Offing (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
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R429 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Critical Administration in Higher Education - Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice (Hardcover): Jay Brower,... Critical Administration in Higher Education - Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice (Hardcover)
Jay Brower, W. Benjamin Myers; Contributions by Tony Adams, Ahmet Atay, Jay Brower, …
R2,406 Discovery Miles 24 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critical Administration: Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice in Contemporary Higher Education explores the challenges that higher education administrators face when negotiating political commitments in the day-to-day practice of university life. Jay Brower and W. Benjamin Myers have collected reflections from 12 administrators, all of whom identify as critical/cultural scholars, about how ideological commitments affect their identities as administrators and the work they conduct. Contributors reflect on how their academic training helps them understand their role as administrators in higher education in terms of central issues surrounding power, ethics, and identity, and how they entwine with managerial responsibilities. Each contributor focuses on specific experiences where their managerial duties intersect with political commitments. Ultimately, this collection provides opportunities to observe the challenges and opportunities of performing ethical leadership in contemporary higher education. Scholars of education, critical/cultural communication, and administration will find this book particularly useful.

The Family Book of Martyrs (Paperback): Benjamin Myers The Family Book of Martyrs (Paperback)
Benjamin Myers
R408 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R69 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Millstone Grit (Paperback): Glyn Hughes Millstone Grit (Paperback)
Glyn Hughes; Introduction by Benjamin Myers
R414 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R78 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Under the Rock - Stories Carved From the Land (Paperback, 2nd New edition): Benjamin Myers Under the Rock - Stories Carved From the Land (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Benjamin Myers 1
R311 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**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

The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825; Volume 1 (Paperback): Benjamin Myer Brink The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825; Volume 1 (Paperback)
Benjamin Myer Brink
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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