As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater.As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace attempts to tell the story, but finds the very...

During an idyllic English summer following World War II an unlikely friendship emerges between a teenage, nationalistic working class man and an older bohemian woman. While working a summer job for her, the teenager discovers an...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2022** **The BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** 'In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and enlightenment by creating crop formations in a...

**Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer, Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman** 'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A sensational piece of storytelling . A singular and significant achievement'...

"The Offing" von Benjamin Myers ist ein bewegender Roman, der die Geschichte einer unerwarteten Freundschaft erzählt. Die Handlung spielt kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und folgt dem jungen Robert Appleyard, einem Bergarbeiterjungen aus...

An Observer Pick for 2019One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the...

"Strandgut: Roman" von Benjamin Myers ist ein fesselnder Roman, der die Geschichte eines Mannes erzählt, der sich nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag in ein abgelegenes Küstendorf zurückzieht. Dort findet er nicht nur Heilung und...

An introduction to the thought of one of the most fascinating theologians and at the same time most controversial church leaders of our time. 

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...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELENA BONHAM-CARTER** FROM THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GALLOWS POLE COMES A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________________ 'What a radical thing, these days, to...

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...

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...