Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers
An ingenious, funny and moving novel about love, loss and second chances - and the power of music to bring us together. By the award-winning author of The Offing and The Gallows Pole
Following the Goldsmiths-winning Cuddy, a tale of soul music and second chances, as a washed-up American singer meets a Scarborough woman * GUARDIAN, Books to look out for in 2024 *
Warm, witty and unexpected, Rare Singles is that rare thing – a novel filled with truth and tenderness and genuine humanityThe book you didn’t know you need -- BOBBY PALMER, author of Isaac and the Egg
People, you’re going to love this. A beautiful vignette of redemption, loss, faded seaside glamour and Northern Soul -- MAT OSMAN
Scarborough’s Northern Soul scene is the setting for Rare Singles by the Durham-born Benjamin Myers, who won the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize * NEW STATESMAN, 2024: The year in fiction *
Returns Myers to his past as a music journalist, telling a warmly nostalgic tale of northern soul and unlikely friendship in Scarborough. The great but forgotten Bucky Bronco’s visit to the Yorkshire coast is handled with Myers’s customary humour and generosity of spirit. * GUARDIAN, Fiction to look out for in 2024 *
Praise for Benjamin Myers: One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers * I NEWS *
What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous -- MAX PORTER
A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent -- ALEX PRESTON
Here is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they are * THE TIMES *
Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times -- DAVID PEACE
Warm, witty and unexpected, Rare Singles is that rare thing – a novel filled with truth and tenderness and genuine humanityThe book you didn’t know you need -- BOBBY PALMER, author of Isaac and the Egg
People, you’re going to love this. A beautiful vignette of redemption, loss, faded seaside glamour and Northern Soul -- MAT OSMAN
Scarborough’s Northern Soul scene is the setting for Rare Singles by the Durham-born Benjamin Myers, who won the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize * NEW STATESMAN, 2024: The year in fiction *
Returns Myers to his past as a music journalist, telling a warmly nostalgic tale of northern soul and unlikely friendship in Scarborough. The great but forgotten Bucky Bronco’s visit to the Yorkshire coast is handled with Myers’s customary humour and generosity of spirit. * GUARDIAN, Fiction to look out for in 2024 *
Praise for Benjamin Myers: One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers * I NEWS *
What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous -- MAX PORTER
A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent -- ALEX PRESTON
Here is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they are * THE TIMES *
Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times -- DAVID PEACE
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the author of ten books, including The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and was adapted for a BBC series by Shane Meadows with A24; Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, Caught by the River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
benjaminmyerswriter.com / @BenMyers1
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526671905 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526671905 |
| Title | Rare Singles |
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2024-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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