The Gallows Pole Benjamin Myers

Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize. ‘Historical fiction at its best’ Pat Barker. ‘Phenomenal’ Sebastian Barry. ‘Superb’ The Times

Soon to be a TV series co-produced by the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose

From his moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and landworkers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley’s empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North.

Born in Durham, Benjamin Myers is an award-winning writer whose work spans fiction, poetry and journalism. His novel Richard was a Sunday Times book of the year, Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron was recipient of the 06 July 2023

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21 February 2019

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