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Benjamin Myers

The Gallows Pole

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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 TIMESFrom 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 industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5266-1115-4
  • EAN: 9781526611154
  • Produktnummer: 29186881
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Masse: H18.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.5 cm 274 g
  • Gewicht: 274
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, the Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist.He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.benmyers.com / @BenMyers1

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