It's a windswept, brutal tale of eighteenth-century Yorkshire told in starkly beautiful prose." - Alex Preston, The Guardian"Atmospheric alt-crime at its best. A maiden (a young unmarried woman) or man is about to be hanged (in many variants, for unknown reasons) pleads with the hangman, or judge, to wait for the arrival of someone who may bribe him. It seems as though Myers, seer-like, has merely had to wait for the world outwardly to become as he long ago divined it to be.His element is violence and, in his element, he is thrilling: intelligent, dangerous and near untouchable." - New Statesman"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. Today the political shocks of Brexit and Trump make this obvious in a way it hasn't been for a long time: the strand of malevolent machismo that seemed like deliberately shocking Gothic in Myers's 2014 novel Beastings feels closer to home now.
The wheels of industry turn ever onwards and the trees are falling still. It's the best thing Myers has done fierce gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises." - Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year, The Big Issue"Myers's obsession with place and power is urgently contemporary. The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers (2017) Bluemoose books (2017) 360 pp So name your Gods lads.
"Not only one of my books of the year, but it also has my cover of the year: Sergeant Pepper meets The Omen by way of 1930s paperbacks.
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