WINNER of THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018
THE GALLOWS POLE by Benjamin Myers won the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018. BEASTINGS won The Portico literature Prize in 2015 and PIG IRON won The Gordon Burn Prize in 2013. Myers' is the recipient of the Society of Authors Roger Deakin Prize 2016 for The Gallows Pole. He also won the Northern Writers Award 2014 and the Society of Authors Tom Gallon Award.
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historic Fiction 2018; Winner of A Roger Deakin Award; “Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch.” – Pat Barker; “A phenomenal and highly energised novel.’ Sebastian Barry; “From the half-forgotten history of northern working men on the brink of the Industrial Revolution, Myers has unearthed a powerful story which he tells with great vigour.” – The Sunday Times; “This powerful novel is as darkly lovely as Emily Bronte’s work” – Joanne Harris; “A brilliant, extraordinary book.” – Mary Anne Hobbs, 6 Music; “A roaring furnace of a novel. In telling a big story about a small place, Benjamin Myers portrays social upheavals which have a sharp contemporary echo, as well as bringing to light a little-known and fascinating fragment of rural English history…he meets the challenge for every author of historical fiction – bringing alive the past and speaking forcefully to the readers of today” – The Walter Scott Prize Judges 2018; “Myers’s obsession with place and power is urgently contemporary. Society is fragile. The walls can, and do, collapse. Today the political shocks of Brexit and Trump make this obvious in a way it hasn’t been for a long time: the strand of malevolent machismo that seemed like deliberately shocking Gothic in Myers’s 2014 novel Beastings feels closer to home now. It seems as though Myers, seer-like, has merely had to wait for the world outwardly to become as he long ago divined it to be…His element is violence and, in his element, he is thrilling: intelligent, dangerous and near untouchable.” – New Statesman; “Not only one of my books of the year, but it also has my cover of the year: Sergeant Pepper meets The Omen by way of 1930s paperbacks. It’s the best thing Myers has done; fierce gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises.” – Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year, The Big Issue; “Benjamin Myers is a poet and his evocation of Hartley’s moorland home is superb…this is a brutal tale told with an original, muscular voice.” – The Times, summer reads pick 2018; “Myers’s prose is loaded with beautiful old words that point to a deep understanding of how language, place and identity combine. A rich, mythic brew” – The TLS
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