· The Gallows Pole is adapted from Benjamin Myers’ novel of the same name and tells the remarkable true story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, two . · The Gallows Pole tells the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, an organised gang of criminals based in and around the upper Calder Valley, in what was then a remote part of England where the law held little sway. · Land of the Brontës, Bram Stoker, Ted Hughes and David Hockney, that much I knew, until I read Ben Myers’ pungent and addictive novel, The Gallows Pole, about a forgotten chapter of history. King David Hartley of Bell House was the leader of the Cragg Vale Coiners, “whose brutality had put the fear in many and whose wicked practices had damaged the trade of the common man, but Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
THE GALLOWS POLE by Benjamin Myers won the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE BEASTINGS won The Portico literature Prize in and PIG IRON won The Gordon Burn Prize in Myers' is the recipient of the Society of Authors Roger Deakin Prize for The Gallows Pole. Male Tears by Benjamin Myers review - men at the margins The emphasis is on atmospherics in these dark short stories from the author of The Gallows Pole Benjamin Myers at home in Mytholmroyd in. Third Man Books debut fiction novel, The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers, is for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Ted Hughes, Daniel Woodrell, David Peace. Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners.
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers review – murder on the moors The desperate rise and fall of a Yorkshire coining gang in the s are made over into myth Benjamin Myers’s prose evokes. The Gallows Pole tells the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, an organised gang of criminals based in and around the upper Calder Valley, in what was then a remote part of England where the law held little sway. An English western, The Gallows Pole is a poetic and visceral telling of a secret history and a wild landscape. It explores contemporary themes including wealth, abuse of power, class, corruptions, borders and boundaries and national identity. Includes a Foreword by Benjamin Myers exclusive to this USA edition from Third Man Books.
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