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The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Gallows Pole, Myers turns his attention to West Yorkshire and relates the story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, their successes, their daring, their savagery, and their ultimate downfall at the hands of a persistent excise officer and a turncoat. Taken together, his work, which focuses on "rural landscapes, mythology, marginalised characters, morality, class, nature, dialect and post-industrialisation," forms a sequence dedicated to the beauty and the brutality of the counties of northern England. When The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2018, it catapulted Benjamin Myers into the mainstream literary spotlight, but before that his innovative use of language and his almost uncanny ability to capture a sense of place had ensured that his novels (including Pig Iron and Beastings ) were underground sensations. ![]()
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