Showing results for "Benjamin Myers" in Literary Fiction

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Sixties and then vanished off the face of the earth. When she manages to contact Bucky she can’t believe her luck.

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras – from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.

In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over 15 years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.

1989 tauchen auf den immer noch großen Feldern im Süden Englands seltsame, kreisrunde Muster auf, mal in der Struktur einfach, mal aufwändig. Die wildesten Gerüchte machen die Runde. Manchen glauben an Jungenstreiche, andere an Außerirdische. Ungerührt von der Aufregung, die bald nicht nur England erfasst, verfolgen zwei junge Männer ihren Plan, den perfekten Kreis zu schaffen. Redbone und Calvert, beide versehrt durch Erlebnisse in ihrer Vergangenheit, lernen sich zufällig kennen und fühlen sofort eine innere Verbundenheit.