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Benjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976.

He is an award-winning author and journalist.

His first short story collection, Male Tears, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

His novel The Offing was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is a best-seller in Germany. It was serialised by Radio 4's Book At Bedtime and Radio 2 Book club choice. It is being developed for stage and has been optioned for film.

The non-fiction book Under The Rock, was shortlisted for The Portico Prize For Literature in 2020.

Recipient of the Roger Deakin Award and first published by Bluemoose Books, Myers' novel The Gallows Pole was published to acclaim in 2017 and was winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2018 - the world's largest prize for historical fiction. It has ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 7,516 ratings · 1,045 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Offing 4.31 avg rating — 2,777 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gallows Pole 4.18 avg rating — 1,936 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beastings 4.18 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pig Iron 4.34 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning Blue (Mace & Brindle, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place 4.42 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Day: American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion 3.77 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Darkening Days 3.96 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard 3.39 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muse: Inside the Muscle Museum 3.59 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Benjamin and 5 other people liked Sunny Mann's review of Beastings: "Holy shit. This novel is fucking brutal... what happens to the poacher, to the girl at the end... shit is so fucked up..."
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Benjamin and 5 other people liked Michelle Mortimer's review of The Gallows Pole: "Wow. I’m not sure what to say about this book. I started it, and really didn’t like it. It immediately gave me the creeps so I turned it upside down and put it at the bottom of my pile of books to read, and tried to forget about it. But something abo" Read more of this review »
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“Fuck the king because you can be sure the king is already fucking you.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

tags: exploitation, labor, monarchies, poverty, power-imbalances, royalty

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“David Hartley appeared of the earth, of the moors. A man of smoke and peat and heather and fire, his body built for the hills. Where one began the other ended.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

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“Yes my sleep it was diysturbed by the sound of the moore tryin to get into my room an the sound of the moore tryin to get into my bed and the moore tryin to get into my mind becors it can do that can the moore and no man can sleep in that state no Not unless thur in a coffing.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole

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Remember, if you vote for a book and it wins, you are implicitly promising to read the book and participate in the discussion. If you fail to participate, you will be sent to Mimir's Well and forbidden to return without bringing a pale of his water.

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Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck

8 votes, 34.8%

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

5 votes, 21.7%

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

4 votes, 17.4%

Home by Marilynne Robinson

3 votes, 13.0%

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

3 votes, 13.0%

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