Beastings by Benjamin Myers
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. Like an American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern England, Beastings is a sparse & poetic novel about morality, motherhood & corruption.
"The evocation of landscape is intimate and elemental - Myers has the potential to become a true tragedian of the fells" - The Guardian "Benjamin Myers is quite simply an excellent and already accomplished writer. His prose is taut, confident, professionally polished but at the same time maintaining a sense of rustic and unrefined authenticity, that which is truly hewn." - Judge Sarah Hall, Northern Writers' Award "This bitter, alarming, occasionally visionary novel of the British wilderness is likely to linger in the mind for some time." - New Statesman "Beastings is just wonderful - tough and generous and beautiful" - Will Atkins, author of The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature 'BEASTINGS is a brilliant, brutal novel, told sparsley but with huge strength. It put me in mind of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy in the attention to landscape, and its muscular tone.' Robert Macfarlane.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780992791933 |
| ISBN 10 | 0992791936 |
| Title | Beastings |
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bluemoose Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Winner of Gordon Burn Prize 2013, Short-listed for Portico Prize for Literature: Fiction 2015, Long-listed for Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015 |
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