The Perfect Golden Circle

"A quiet, peculiar, and utterly charming novel about...crop circles ... A winsome pleasure: a novel of friendship, collaboration, and environmental guerrilla art." - Kirkus, starred review “The beauty of Myers’ language alone is reward enough to read this superb novel, but The Perfect Golden Circle offers so much more: an all-too-rare literary depiction of rural England, the depths of the two central characters, the class and ecological concerns; but most of all the human need for what the Welsh poet Bobi Jones called ‘the boundless mystery that comforts being.’ A truly remarkable novel.” — Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena Praise for Benjamin Myers’s previous books: THE OFFING “This quiet, lyrical novel confirms a powerful new voice.” ― The Times “This is a poetic book with a winning generosity of spirit, moving from a folksy celebration of the rural north to a revelation of the broader horizons that can come from reading and some serious culture.” ― Sunday Times “It‘s a poignant story, and Myers‘ descriptions of the countryside are wonderful.” ― Mail on Sunday “Every page is studded with descriptive jewels ... Deeply attuned to the natural world ... Poetic ... This book is a sensual pleasure ... It‘s about the forever things: good food, and art, and friendship, and how those pleasures can redeem us, even during the harshest of times.” — New Statesman “Quietly gripping ... Written with Myers‘s customary grit and brio ... A welcome advance, one that sees Myers effortlessly extending his range.” — The Guardian MALE TEARS “One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation.” ― Daily Mail “In his varied, and often satirical, takes on an alternative English history, steeped in the mythic, folkloric and grotesque, Myers taps into a rich vein of Yorkshire gothic, both menacing and comically absurd, its register set somewhere between Ted Hughes, Emily Bronte and The League of Gentleman. The stories resonate most when his dark humour and lyricism combined.” ― Times Literary Supplement “Benjamin Myers‘ stories in Male Tears cut right to the heart of the matter. This is fiction to be taken in gulps of pleasure - full of fire and light, wisdom and violence.” —Rob Doyle “One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times.” —David Peace “Powerful; visceral writing.” —Pat Barker THE GALLOWS POLE “One of my books of the year ... It‘s the best thing Myers has done.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year “A windswept, brutal tale of eighteenth-century Yorkshire told in starkly beautiful prose.” ― The Guardian “A brutal tale told with an original, muscular voice.” ― The Times, summer reads picks 2018 “A phenomenal and highly energised novel.” ―Sebastian Barry TURNING BLUE "A queasily compulsive evocation of a wild and brutal Yorkshire landscape, informed and haunted in equal measure by the shades of Jimmy Savile and his monstrous deeds and the East Riding‘s lost boy of crime fiction, Ted Lewis." —Cathi Unsworth, author of Without the Moon and Weirdo "Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir and with ‘Turning Blue‘ he has created a whole new genre: folk crime. It is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable. I‘m already looking forward to the sequel." —Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake and Beast "Depraved and decadent ... His prose is beautifully controlled and so graphic it‘s impossible not to picture the scenes he conjures up in striking detail. There is no hiding from the darkness because the writing is so damned good." —Val McDermid, The Guardian PIG IRON “Pig Iron is an important book because it tells a story that has shaped all contemporary Western humans, but is routinely, inexplicably overlooked - the great move from agricultural life to industrial life. The respect in which that shapes human culture and individual humans.” —Deborah Orr “Benjamin Myers‘ influences are clear — David Peace‘s northern brutalism is evident and there are suggestions of Salinger and Golding but Pig Iron‘s savage vision is his alone.” ― Morning Star