Ben Myers Reihenfolge der Bücher

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023 Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman 'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement' GUARDIAN 'Marvellous, artful, enchanted' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWS The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing 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. Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages. And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams, desires, connections and communities.

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

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. Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages. And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams, desires, connections and communities.

Die vornehmlich männlichen Protagonisten in Bejamin Myers' oft aufwühlenden Erzählungen haben weder das Strahlende der Helden vergangener Tage noch zeigen sie den Charakter, der sie das moderne Leben bewältigen lassen würde. Vielmehr kämpfen sie oft ums nackte Überleben, oft mit gescheiterten Lebensentwürfen und ihrer Vorstellung vom Mannsein. Harte Arbeit, Prinzipientreue, Pflichterfüllung, ohne Fragen zu stellen, all das ist ihnen nicht fremd. Vor Versagensängsten, Unsicherheit und Zärtlichkeit schrecken sie zurück. So wie der Ehemann der namenlosen Frau, die in ›Ein englisches Ende‹ beim friedlichen Schwimmen in einem abgelegenen See ihrer Ehe unsentimental und klarsichtig Revue passieren lässt. Sieger sind die Frauen und Männer in Myers' Erzählungen kaum, dennoch erleben sie ab und an Momente des Friedens und des Glücks. ›Der längste, strahlendste Tag‹ vereint die Arbeit von fünfzehn Jahren. Emotional und sprachlich dicht überzeugt jede einzelne Geschichte von Benjamin Myers.

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 nature of truth brought into question. He turns to disgraced detective James Brindle for help. When further attacks occur the shattered community becomes the focus of an accelerating media that favours immediacy over truth. Murder and myth collide in a folk-crime story about place, identity and the tangled lives of those who never leave.

'Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole new genre: folk crime ... this is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable' PAUL KINGSNORTH In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption. Darker forces are at work than either man has realised. On a farm high above the hamlet, Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened Brindle. Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places better than him. As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from the tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity who has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.

Redbone und Calvert kennen sich seit langem. Obwohl sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten und einander wenig von sich erzählen, fühlen sie von Anfang an eine starke Verbundenheit. Hinter ihnen liegen Jahre der Rastlosigkeit und tiefen Einsamkeit. Eher zufällig entsteht in ihnen die Idee der Kornkreise. Während sie hoffen, dass sie in diesem Sommer den Kreis erschaffen können, kommen sie ihrem Land, seinen Bewohnern und ihren eigenen Träumen näher. Geprägt von demselben Freiheitsdrang und derselben Ablehnung jeglicher Obrigkeit, entstehen in ihnen ein tiefer Respekt für ihre Umwelt und der Wunsch, die beengende Realität des täglichen Daseins hinter sich lassen zu können. Gelingt der perfekte Kornkreis, kann ihnen auch alles andere gelingen.