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The Gallows Pole Benjamin Myers

The Gallows Pole By Benjamin Myers

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers


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The Gallows Pole Summary

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

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.

The Gallows Pole Reviews

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 *

About Benjamin Myers

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

Additional information

GOR009880521
9781526611154
1526611155
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2019-02-21
384
N/A
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