The Gallows Pole

*Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize, world's largest prize for historical fiction (previous winners Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Barry, Robert Harris, Andrea Levy) and Winner of the Roger Deakin Award.

*A Foreword by Benjamin Myers exclusive to the USA/Third Man Books edition.

*Amazon Top 100 seller, optioned for film by Element Pictures (The Favourite, Room, This Must Be The Place)

*Breakthrough independent UK novel of 2018, The Gallows Pole. Sold out 7 print-runs on a tiny publisher, is a Book of the Year in several national print publications and has been signed by Bloomsbury (home of Harry Potter), along with Myers' back-list. Also a hit in the music world, with support from NME, BBC 6Music DJs etc.
* The UK's answer to Cormac McCarthy, Benjamin Myers is for fans of Ted Hughes, Daniel Woodrell, David Peace, and McCarthy.