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.
About the Contributor(s): Benjamin Myers teaches theology at Charles Sturt University's School of Theology in Sydney. He is author of Milton's Theolog...
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...
WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE `Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' PAT BARKER `Phe...
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.
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows Pole John-J...
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...
Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award `A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANE A girl and a baby. A p...
From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole comes a powerful new novel about an unlikely friendship between a young man and an older woman, set in the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay in the aftermath of the Second World War
From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole comes a powerful new novel about an unlikely friendship between a young man and an olde...
