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Benjamin Myers
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Cuddy: out now in paperback
Hello friends,
My latest novel CUDDY is out in paperback this week (Feb 1st 2024) but has sneaked into shops already...
It recently won the Goldsmiths Prize.
You can buy it online here:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuddy...
And I also have a new website here: www.benjaminmyerswriter.com
Happy reading.
All the very best,
Ben(jamin) Myers Read more of this blog post »
My latest novel CUDDY is out in paperback this week (Feb 1st 2024) but has sneaked into shops already...
It recently won the Goldsmiths Prize.
You can buy it online here:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuddy...
And I also have a new website here: www.benjaminmyerswriter.com
Happy reading.
All the very best,
Ben(jamin) Myers Read more of this blog post »
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The Offing
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2019
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2 editions
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The Perfect Golden Circle
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2022
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20 editions
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The Gallows Pole
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2017
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12 editions
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Cuddy
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2023
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9 editions
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Rare Singles
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2024
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8 editions
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Beastings
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published
2014
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10 editions
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Pig Iron
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published
2012
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9 editions
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Turning Blue (Mace & Brindle, #1)
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2016
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9 editions
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Male Tears
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2021
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7 editions
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These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2)
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2017
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8 editions
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Benjamin’s Recent Updates
"The new stuff from your boy Benny Myers is proper weird and proper great. Immediately watching videos of Klaus Kinski on YouTube."
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"Jesus Christ Kinski (2025) proves yet again that Benjamin Myers is a writer unconstrained by subject matter or style. After the Northern Soul novel (Rare Singles), and the fantastic Cuddy, which combines poetry, prose, diary entries and real historic"
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"The summer of ‘89, the crop circle summer, summer of drought and hysteria; an overheated decade waning into an uncertain transitional time. Ben Myers’s prose is sometimes overheated too, but that’s the only imperfection in this strangely soothing nov"
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“Krieg ist Krieg: Er wird von wenigen angezettelt und von vielen gefuehrt, und am Ende verlieren alle.”
― The Offing
― The Offing
“Travel is a search for the self . . . and sometimes just to search is enough. [. . .] Wander around long enough with your eyes open and soon enough you'll find things. Great journeys are never about the destination.”
― The Offing
― The Offing
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WndyJW
Jan 16, 2018 05:39PM
I am really excited that I have discovered Benjamin Myers. Now if I can only find a way to buy his books so that he gets paid! Beastings is on Amazon, but Turning Blur and Pig Iron are only available through used book dealers. I hope Bluemoose Booke still has copies for sale.
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You can now vote for my novel PIG IRON in The Guardian's Not The Booker prize if so inclined. http://gu.com/p/3aqn5/tw
