Under the Rock: Stories Carved From the Land

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ISBN 13: 9781783964369
ISBN 10: 1783964367
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Book Description: **Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2019**; The astonishing new work of non-fiction from the prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing.; Under the Rock is about badgers, balsam, history, nettles, mythology, moorlands, mosses, poetry, bats, wild swimming, slugs, recession, floods, logging, peacocks, community, apples, asbestos, quarries, geology, industrial music, owls, stone walls, farming, anxiety, relocation, the North, woodpiles, folklore, landslides, ruins, terriers, woodlands, ravens, dales, valleys, walking, animal skulls, trespassing, crows, factories, maps, rain – lots of rain – and a great big rock.; ______________; ‘Extraordinary, elemental … never less than compelling: this is a wild, dark grimoire of a book’ – TLS; ‘Exceptionally engaging … beguiling … this is a startling, unclassifiable book’ – Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman; ‘Compelling … admirable and engrossing. Myers writes of the rain with a poet’s eye worthy of Hughes’ – Erica Wagner, New Statesman; ‘A bone-tingling book’ – Richard Benson, author of The Valley and The Farm; ‘A truly elemental read from which I emerged subtly changed... It has all the makings of a classic’ – Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country and Owl Sense
About the Author: Benjamin Myers is an author, journalist and poet. His novels include The Gallows Pole (2017), which won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and also received the Roger Deakin Award; Turning Blue (2016); Beastings (2014) which won the Portico Prize For Literature and the Northern Writers' Award, was longlisted for a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award 2015 and chosen by Robert Macfarlane as one of his books of 2014; Pig Iron (2012), which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and was runner-up in The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize; and Richard (2010), a Sunday Times book of the year. His journalism regularly appears in The Guardian, New Statesman, Mojo, Caught By The River, New Scientist and others. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
Language: English
Author: Benjamin Myers
Publication Date: 2019-04-25
Number of Pages: 400 pages