Ebook {Epub PDF} Beastings by Benjamin Myers

 · His most recent novel The Offing was a bestseller in the UK, and serialized on BBC Radio, while The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize – the world’s largest prize for historical fiction - and has been identified as a contemporary cult classic.  · Beastings by Benjamin Myers. When a conflict is composed as perfectly as it is in “Beastings” no flourishes are needed. The prose in this novel are so pared down that the primary characters don’t even have names. A Girl races over the countryside in Northern England with a kidnapped baby. She is pursued by a Priest who has employed a Poacher with a dog to help track . Description. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANEA girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve www.doorway.ru:

Stories told in strong, distinctive voices using sparse, pared-back prose don't come much better than Benjamin Myers' Beastings, which has just been reissued by Bloomsbury. Originally published in , this simple tale is essentially a chase novel in which a priest enlists the help of a poacher to pursue a young woman who's stolen a baby. An American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern England, Beastings is a sparse and poetic novel about morality, motherhood and corruption. Read an extract. Read an extract of Beastings Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in His nov Reviews. Bloomsbury presents Beastings by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award. A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the.

Beastings (Paperback) by Benjamin Myers and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Description. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANEA girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Beastings Benjamin Myers Copyright © Benjamin Myers First published in by Bluemoose Books Ltd 25 Sackville Street Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 7DJ.