Review

"The consistency of Benjamin Myers fictional world, in his locations as well as the imaginative portrayal of these valley people of the northlands , has the effect of making his novels (diverse though they are) seem like an unfolding sequence. Each book takes its place within the whole, reinforcing the overall mining of the rich seam of local mythologies , while casting new perspectives on his previous novels. Myers is, unusually among contemporary writers (perhaps), best read in his entirety.

Benjamin Myers is a writer who has found his subject and the voice that best expresses it. These Darkening Days is another powerful novel, a piece of Yorkshire noir and one more of Myers histories of an alternative North." --James Doyle, Bookmunch

About the Author

Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist.

His novels include The Gallows Pole (2017), which won a Roger Deakin Award, Turning Blue (2016) and Beastings (2014), winner of the Portico Prize For Literature and a Northern Writers Award. Pig Iron (2012) won the Gordon Burn Prize and Richard (2010) was a bestseller, chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its books of the year. Myers' short story The Folk Song Singer was awarded the Tom-Gallon Prize in 2014 by the Society Of Authors. Other works include a poetry collection Heathcliff Adrift (2014) and the novella Snorri & Frosti (2013). He is the author of several music biographies which have been translated into seven languages, and his short stories and poems have been published in dozens of print anthologies. His writing has appeared in publications including The Guardian, BBC, Mojo, New Statesman, New Scientist, The Big Issue, Melody Maker, Time Out, Bizarre, Shortlist, The Morning Star, NME, 3:AM Magazine, Caught By The River and others.

Benjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976. He currently lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, UK.

www.benmyers.com