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The international bestselling author Benjamin Myers returns with the novel of his career: a wondrous, exhilarating, deeply affecting novel about Northern England's mysterious past and its confounding present. Perfect for fans of Max Porter's Lanny (TCM: 42,000), George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo (TCM: 85,000) and Richard Powers' The Overstory (TCM: 104,000)Myers' novel The Gallows Pole has been adapted into a TV series by Shane Meadows, produced by the BBC and A24, and will air in Autumn 2022. His novel The Offing has been adapted for stage and is also being developed for film by Helena Bonham-CarterA bookseller favourite, Myers' work has now sold over 60,000 copies TCM; Bloomsbury have put over 90,000 copies of his work into the market in the last two yearsBenjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the author of ten books, including The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and has been adapted as a BBC series by Shane Meadows; Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, Caught by the River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
benjaminmyerswriter.com / @BenMyers1**Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer, Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman**
'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A sensational piece of storytelling . A singular and significant achievement' GUARDIAN
'Marvellous, artful, enchanted' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWS
The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England.
Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras - from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.
Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages.
And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams, desires, connections and communities.The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing It's been a while since I've reacted as emotionally to a novel ... An epic the north has long deserved: ambitious, dreamy, earthy, dark, welcoming and not ... There are readers like me who will not just enjoy this book but feel deeply grateful for its existenceA polyphonic hymn to a very specific landscape and its people. At the same time, it deepens his standing as an arresting chronicler of a broader, more mysterious seam of ancient folklore that unites the history of these isles as it's rarely taughtMyers is maturing into a serious writer rather than just a sombre one. Cuddy is an ambitious and accomplished novel that shows it's not - necessarily - grim up northThere's much to enjoy in the novel's linguistic beauty ... Cuddy explores the endurance of goodness and graceA sensational piece of storytelling . The symbiosis of poetry and story, of knowledge and deep love, marks out Cuddy as a singular and significant achievementMesmerising, lyrical ... Stands in a genre of its own ... Serves as a reminder that we are but custodians of a world we inherited. Cuddy cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writersMyers traces . the manifold threads of history to remarkable effectThe cathedral is a wonder . in its elegance and grotesquery, its shimmering and its solidity, Myers captures it accurately. Indeed, that could be a description of his bookAs a work of literature and as a tribute to a man and his region, it will endureMarvellous, artful, enchanted ... With power and pathos, this novel follows the cult of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne from the 7th century to the present dayBrave, bold and brilliantly alive, Cuddy calls forth the voices and the places of the north in a kaleidoscopic portrait through time. Myers at his best: dark, sharp, earthy and superbly funny. Cuddy isn't a novel, it's an invocationSpare, poetic, haunting, tenderly observed ... Myers is a natural storyteller ... [with] a poetic sensibility, and as a writer he enjoys the snap and crunch of words, and the way they can summon an atmosphereA wonder ... An accomplished and very moving novelMyers chisels a cohesive and engaging portrait of a place laden with historyAn absorbingly beautiful book ... There aren't many writers as attuned to the present state of this country and the history and landscape that made it as Myers, who succeeds repeatedly in harnessing time with compassion, kindness and a rare gift for finding the right voice for the right people in the right eraCuddy is a work of art. Ben Myers has pulled off a kind of magic trick ... Daring, expansive and deeply satisfying, Cuddy is a truly original piece of writing which weaves a special kind of magic. I was left completely spellbound. I loved every minute of this dazzling and deeply original novelOnce again Ben Myers has built another time machine in words and I thoroughly enjoyed being humped around early medieval northern England alongside St Cuthbert's holy corpse via centuries of fisticuffs and up Durham Cathedrals tower to a sensitive take on issues of our own time. Most of all I appreciated how Myers explores faith and belief without the usual eyeroll and cynicism of our excessively secular age - I feel St Cuthbert's monks and masons looking down through history with a certain sense of prideCuddy is another milestone marking Myers' versatility as a writerRich, rewarding, dark and comic, Cuddy is, like that cathedral, a magnificent constructionTo be able to move from the Dark Ages, to the Middle Ages, to the Victorian Era to Modern Times and so ably capture the zeitgeist of each is a rare feat of imaginationPraise for Benjamin Myers: A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talentA genre-melding experimental novelHere is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they areNo one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Benjamin Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of artOne of the most interesting, restless writers of his generationNo one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Ben Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of artShot through with a romantic, even mystical radicalism of the kind that William Blake would have approved ofWhat a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... GorgeousBenjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his ownA powerful new voiceBook by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our timesA draft of cool, clear water ... He's such a good and brave writerBenjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his ownPowerful and moving
Product Details
Title: | Cuddy |
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Author: | Benjamin Myers |
SKU: | BK0508749 |
EAN: | 9781526631466 |
About Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the author of ten books, including The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and has been adapted as a BBC series by Shane Meadows; Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, Caught by the River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
benjaminmyerswriter.com / @BenMyers1