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Under the Rock

Under the Rock

 

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 

 

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.

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'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

 

 

Published by Elliott & Thompson (2019) in hardback, paperback and kindle formats.

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© 2024 by Benjamin Myers

Author. Journalist. Writer. 

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