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Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Sixties and then vanished off the face of the earth. When she manages to contact Bucky she can’t believe her luck.

England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men—traumatised Falklands veteran Calvert and affable, chaotic Redbone—set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation.

1989 tauchen auf den immer noch großen Feldern im Süden Englands seltsame, kreisrunde Muster auf, mal in der Struktur einfach, mal aufwändig. Die wildesten Gerüchte machen die Runde. Manchen glauben an Jungenstreiche, andere an Außerirdische. Ungerührt von der Aufregung, die bald nicht nur England erfasst, verfolgen zwei junge Männer ihren Plan, den perfekten Kreis zu schaffen. Redbone und Calvert, beide versehrt durch Erlebnisse in ihrer Vergangenheit, lernen sich zufällig kennen und fühlen sofort eine innere Verbundenheit.

Der junge Robert Appleyard verlässt sein Elternhaus und das britische Kohlearbeiterdorf, in dem er aufgewachsen ist. Es ist Sommer, der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vorbei, und Robert ist hungrig nach Meer, Sonne und Weite. Nach Wochen der Wanderschaft, die offene See schon in Sicht, lernt er Dulcie Piper kennen, eine ältere, exzentrische Dame, die in einem verwunschenen Cottage lebt. Aus einem Nachmittag wird ein ganzer Sommer und Dulcie eröffnet dem jungen Mann auf unvergessliche Art die Welt der Poesie, der Musik und der Malerei.

In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over 15 years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.

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.

As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater. As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace attempts to tell the story, but finds the very nature of truth brought into question. He turns to disgraced detective James Brindle for help. When further attacks occur the shattered community becomes the focus of an accelerating media that favours immediacy over truth. Murder and myth collide in a folk-crime story about place, identity and the tangled lives of those who never leave.

In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption.