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Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own. The ballad of Redbone and Calvert somehow combines the ease and warmth of T he Offing with the sinew and menace of The Gallows Pole -- JOHN MITCHINSON A quiet, peculiar, and utterly charming novel about…crop circles … A winsome pleasure: a novel of friendship, collaboration, and environmental guerrilla art.”– Kirkus, starred review Registered office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA and H Bauer Publishing, Company number: LP003328; This brilliant, funny, and delightful novel is about misfits finding purpose, and the redemptive power of artistic expression even in the bleakest of circumstances.”— Booklist, starred review
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Calvert and Redbone are two friends who make crop circles over the course of the summer of 1989, in the fields of Wiltshire,’ said Benjamin. ‘They kind of exist on the fringes of society and only really feel at peace when they're out in the fields at night. So the novel is set entirely over the course of ten different weekends under the covers of darkness.’The Perfect Golden Circle staggers the reader with its wit and beauty and the power of its charged poetry. Myers offers both a soulful portrait of a friendship between two damaged, resilient men and a series of striking glimpses into war, mythology, politics, history, the natural world and art. Like the creations of its protagonists, the impressions this novel leaves are majestic, mysterious and lasting -- SAM LIPSYTE Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men — Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable freind Redbone — set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.
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Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir and with ‘Turning Blue’ he has created a whole new genre: folk crime. It is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable. I’m already looking forward to the sequel.”—Paul Kingsnorth, author of The WakeandBeast Summer 1989, deep in the English countryside — during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . . . The human circle maker is a hugely divisive figure. He (that is not to forget his female counterparts) carries the phenomenon on his shoulders; his creations are to be worshipped but his artistry is to be decried by his cultish audience, his person libelled. He is the craftsman who silently works the moon-soaked fields of southern England, one who chooses to remain tight-lipped on his achievements and allow his unclaimed works to shape the faith of others. His actions invite three obvious questions: Who is he, both on the surface and inside? Why does he bother? What does he get from it? Benjamin Myers is not the first fiction writer to try and explore the possible answers, but with The Perfect Golden Circle he is easily the most successful.Bauer Media Group consists of : Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number 01176085; Bauer Radio Limited, Company number: 1394141 Mark asked, ‘You don't explain in the book exactly how Calvert and Redbone first became pals, but it becomes clear they do have quite an emotional bond, although on the surface they are very different. What has drawn these two together?’ And what of the crop circles? For Calvert and Redbone, it is their true purpose. The circles themselves part of something more, something hopeful within a warring and dying world. The beauty of Myers' language alone is reward enough to read this superb novel, but The Perfect Golden Circle offers so much more: an all-too-rare literary depiction of rural England, the depths of the two central characters, the class and ecological concerns; but most of all the human need for what the Welsh poet Bobi Jones called the boundless mystery that comforts being. A truly remarkable novel -- RON RASH
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An exhilarating, outdoor song of hope and vision, The Perfect Golden Circle taps into something charged, ancient and elemental in England and its people -- ROB DOYLE Set in rural England, 1989, The Perfect Golden Circle tells the story of two men who set out over the course of a summer to form elaborate crop circle patterns in the wheat fields under the cover of darkness. As their circles become increasingly intricate, their work gathers an international cult like following, pushing them to further their designs beyond anything ever seen before. Calvert is a Falklands veteran, suffering post traumatic stress, whilst Redbone is a free-wheeling traveller of sorts, a musician who has wandered Europe with various small-time bands, living a life of protest and substance enhanced contemplation. Two vastly different men, the most unlikely of friendships. Tied together by the circle makers’ code of silence the pair weave their magic through the darkness of a gorgeously framed natural landscape. But don’t expect a singularly jolly romp down the tramlines. Even in the most beautiful corners of agricultural England the excesses, violence vulnerability and loneliness of the human condition are never far away. They constantly haunt the thoughts and words of Calvert and Redbone and those they stumble across in the early hours.It came about through fairly traditional methods. The book was read by a production company that started talking to directors. I just assumed more likely than not, it wouldn't get anywhere. I then got a phone call one day saying, we have a director on board, and it was Shane Meadows. At which point I put my hand over to the receiver and did a big “whoop!”, purely because Shane is probably my favourite contemporary film director! I mean, I've said to people that this is akin to winning the lottery for me, and it really is!’
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