Background
Benjamin Myers was born on January 10, 1976, in Durham, England.
University of Bedfordshire, Vicarage St, Luton LU1 3JU, United Kingdom
Ben studied at the University of Bedfordshire.
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
United Kingdom
Benjamin Myers
(Edgy interviews with challenging musicians, including Mar...)
Edgy interviews with challenging musicians, including Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Slipknot, Jello Biafra, Fat Mike of NOFX, Rage Against the Machine, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, and more. Attacked by Christian fundamentalists, middle America and the CIA, they tell it like it is about religion, racism, God, guns, government, drugs, literature, censorship and more!
https://www.amazon.com/American-Heretics-Rebel-Voices-Music/dp/1899598235/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Rising from humble London-Irish beginnings to iconic stat...)
Rising from humble London-Irish beginnings to iconic status by the age of 21, emancipated Rotten has always been the driving force in punk's finest. This text contains an in-depth account of the music and career of John Lydon since the demise of the Sex Pistols in 1978.
https://www.amazon.com/John-Lydon-Sex-Pistols-Anti-Celebrity/dp/0953994279/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends g...)
The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends grow up together in a cluster of small blue-collar Californian towns, form a band and sell over 50 million albums. Except it wasn’t that simple. Self-confessed latch-key kids, theirs was far from an easy ride. Inspired by both the energy of British punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks and cult American bands such as Dead Kennedys and Husker Du, Green Day formed in 1989.
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Day-American-Idiots-Explosion-ebook/dp/B00CUUAVKC/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(This definitive work - the only book on Muse - tells the ...)
This definitive work - the only book on Muse - tells the band's story, from their inception in the small coastal town of Teignmouth, Devon in the mid-1990s, through numerous incendiary live shows and grandiose, critically acclaimed albums, to their status as the biggest British rock band in the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Muse-Inside-Muscle-Machine-Museum-ebook/dp/B01227OMV6/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London ...)
In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the US with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally dead in November 2008. Now Richard tells the story of his life – and disappearance – as he might have told it.
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Ben-Myers-ebook/dp/B004AE2LH2/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Returning to the post-industrial north-east of England of...)
Returning to the post-industrial north-east of England of his upbringing, young gypsy John-John Wisdom wants to escape his past. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but the legacy of brutality left by his father, the champion bare-knuckle boxer Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life and instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a town where his family name is mud. John-John seeks solace in nature and must find inner strength in order to escape poverty, prejudice and his violent heritage. Taking a dual narrative in which past and present intertwine towards a dramatic conclusion, Pig Iron is an unflinching and poetic portrait of contemporary Traveller culture.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pig-Iron-Benjamin-Myers/dp/0956687679/?tag=prabook0b-20
2012
(A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursu...)
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Chased through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beastings-Benjamin-Myers/dp/0992791936/?tag=prabook0b-20
2014
(Nothing stays hidden forever. In the depths of winter in ...)
Nothing stays hidden forever. 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.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Blue-Benjamin-Myers/dp/1911356003/?tag=prabook0b-20
2016
(As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attac...)
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.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/These-Darkening-Days-Benjamin-Myers/dp/191135602X/?tag=prabook0b-20
2017
(Carved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire,...)
Carved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag overlooking wooded slopes and weed-tangled plateaus. To many it is unremarkable; to others, it is a doomed place where 18th-century thieves hid out, where the town tip once sat, and where suicides leapt to their deaths. Its brooding form presided over the early years of Ted Hughes, who called Scout Rock 'my spiritual midwife both the curtain and backdrop to existence'. Into this beautiful, dark and complex landscape steps Benjamin Myers, asking: are unremarkable places made remarkable by the minds that map them? Seeking a new life and finding solace in nature's power of renewal, Myers excavates stories both human and elemental.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Rock-Poetry-Benjamin-Myers/dp/178396362X/?tag=prabook0b-20
2018
(1780. West Yorkshire. Cast out from the Earnshaw househol...)
1780. West Yorkshire. Cast out from the Earnshaw household where he has lived for nearly a decade, Heathcliff is left to fend for himself. Betrayed by his first love Catherine and now heartbroken and alone again, he takes to the upper moorlands of the Pennines and embarks upon a journey of survival.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heathcliff-Adrift-Benjamin-Myers/dp/1911356089/?tag=prabook0b-20
2018
(One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleya...)
One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea. Staying with Dulcie, Robert's life opens into one of rich food, sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Offing-Benjamin-Myers/dp/1526611317
2019
(From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a ...)
From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gallows-Pole-Benjamin-Myers/dp/1526611155/?tag=prabook0b-20
2019
Benjamin Myers was born on January 10, 1976, in Durham, England.
Benjamin Myers studied at the University of Bedfordshire.
As a journalist, Myers has written about music, the arts and nature for publications including New Statesman, The Guardian, The Spectator, Le Monde, Plan B, and many others.
His short stories and poetry have appeared in dozens of print and small press anthologies, chapbooks, and underground obscurities. His work as been dramatized, set to music, exhibited alongside photographs and as a film/audio installation in venues including Durham Cathedral, The Bronte Parsonage, Hadrian’s Wall and The Portico Library. In 2016 he and his work were the subject of a film on BBC1’s Countryfile.
Myers’ short story ‘The Folk Song Singer’ was awarded the Tom-Gallon Prize in 2014 by the Society Of Authors, and was published by Galley Beggar Press. His story ‘A Thousand Acres of English Soil’ was runner-up of the Tom-Gallon Prize in 2018, where he was awarded by Stephen Fry.
Myers' first novel, Pig Iron, published in 2012, was the winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and runner-up in The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize. A controversial combination of biography and novel, Richard, published in 2010, was a bestseller, chosen as a Sunday Times book of the year and optioned for film.
His novel Beastings won the Portico Prize For Literature, was the recipient of the Northern Writers’ Award and longlisted for a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award 2015. Widely praised, it featured on several end of year lists and was chosen by Robert Macfarlane in The Big Issue as one of his books of 2014. Myers’ ‘folk crime’ novel Turning Blue was widely acclaimed by critics including Val McDermid and was followed by a sequel, These Darkening Days.
Published in May 2017 and now in its 9th print run, The Gallows Pole longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It has been optioned for film/TV by Element Pictures and also available on Audible. It is to be published in the US / Canada in late 2019 by Third Man Books.
Myers' recent and forthcoming novels form a series of works, each of which is set in a different county of northern England, and are heavily inspired by rural landscapes, mythology, marginalized characters, morality, class, nature, dialect, and post-industrialization.
His most recent book Under The Rock, was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2018. His new novel The Offing will be published in hardback in August 2019 by Bloomsbury Circus, along with reissues of his award-winning novels The Gallows Pole, Beastings and Pig Iron.
Myers is also a founding member of the Brutalists, a literary collective including authors Adelle Stripe and Tony O'Neill, and widely acknowledged as the first literary movement to be launched by social networking sites. As of 2014, Myers has been straight edge for ten years.
(This definitive work - the only book on Muse - tells the ...)
2007(Edgy interviews with challenging musicians, including Mar...)
2002(From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a ...)
2019(The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends g...)
2005(Rising from humble London-Irish beginnings to iconic stat...)
2005(Carved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire,...)
2018(In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London ...)
2010(As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attac...)
2017(Returning to the post-industrial north-east of England of...)
2012(One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleya...)
2019(Nothing stays hidden forever. In the depths of winter in ...)
2016(A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursu...)
2014(1780. West Yorkshire. Cast out from the Earnshaw househol...)
2018Quotes from others about the person
“Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our time.” – David Peace
Ben is married to Adelle Stripe, a British writer.