The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022

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Oder auch: "Als eine grosse Wolke vorbeizieht, wird das Licht flüssig, als würde geschmolzenes Metall über das Land gegossen. Hoch über den Männern kreisen und lodern und brennen Planeten, und unter dem imaginären Zwergmond des ruhigen silbernen Getreides huschen kleine Säugetiere durch das subterranen Reich." Clever, angry, poignant and beautifully constructed ... A work of love, and a work about works of love, and a work that evokes a sense of love in the reader * SCOTSMAN * From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create over the course of a long, hot and very strange summer. 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 Quietly gripping … Written with Myers’s customary grit and brio … A welcome advance, one that sees Myers effortlessly extending his range.”— The Guardian

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One of my books of the year … It’s the best thing Myers has done.”―Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year No one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Ben Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of art. Quite simply, this is a magnificent book -- WENDY ERSKINEA book is shot through with a romantic, even mystical radicalism of the kind that William Blake would have approved of. * DAILY TELEGRAPH * Hi! I would like to know how many hours take to complete all teh Golden Circle's stops mentioned in this article. Do 6 hours is enough? How Treasure Island was born out of Robert Louis Stevenson trying to amuse his stepson on a wet summer holiday in Braemar For any croppie prepared to entertain the idea that human circle makers are more than devils, The Perfect Golden Circle is a delightful read. Pseuds may quibble over Myers’ frequently inaccurate representation of circle making methodology and logistics, but this is irrelevant. What matters is his deserved status as a masterful storyteller, one who enlivens his readership through the detail and tenderness he affords his main characters. Indeed, Calvert and Redbone are, at heart, very similar to the circle makers of today … real people from the margins with emotions, strengths and failings. Without them and their code of silence there will be one fewer type of magic in this world. Should that day come we at least have The Perfect Golden Circle to remember them by. Benjamin Myers is in my opinion one of the greatest British voices in fiction. His previous works Beastings, The Gallows Pole, Male Tears, The Offing, Pig Iron showcase his vast talent and his continued development as a writer, each book is different and each contains lightning in a bottle - if you've not discovered Myers' work yet, I urge you to do so, he's a national treasure.

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Registered office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA and H Bauer Publishing, Company number: LP003328; A thrilling introduction to a British literary star and a moving meditation on history, trauma and the urge to create.. .” — Shelf Awareness Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the destruction of the English countryside, class inequality – and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power. Es ist ein heißer Sommer 1989 in England und die beiden Freunde Calvert und Redbone haben große Pläne. Beide einsam, traumatisiert und in der Schwebe wollen sie gemeinsam den perfekten Kornkreis erschaffen, ohne dass jemand davon erfährt. Things To Do Around Lake Myvatn Geothermal Area Skaftafell Glacier Hike Guide The Best South Iceland Hotels | Where to Stay in South IcelandThis one sounds great, I’ll look out for it but I’m not going to reserve it at the library because the books keep coming when I don’t have time to read them… It centres on the creators of the crop circles, quintessential odd couple Redbone and Calvert. Like the characters in the author’s previous work, which spans historical fiction and rural noir, and includes the 2021 short story collection Male Tears, these men are outsiders. While Redbone lives in an old camper van, is immersed in the crust punk scene and prone to visions hallucinogenic and otherwise, Calvert is a solitary SAS veteran, battle scarred inwardly as well as outwardly from his service in the Falklands. Bathed in moonlight, Myers’s land thrums with more ancient reverberations Myers [writes] fierce, gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises.” — Robert Macfarlane, author The Lost Words The next stop on the Golden Circle route is one of the largest, most powerful waterfalls you will see on your trip – Gullfoss.

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The Golden Circle is one of the most well traveled routes in all of Iceland. It is home to some incredible sights, each with its own beauty to offer. Benjamin Myers uses the efforts of the real-life Bower and Chorley as the jumping-off point for his latest novel…[it]has much to say about art, but it also has an allegorical feel.” — The Star Tribune Now that you are in Iceland, you will have to decide how you are getting around the country. There are two main ways to see the Golden Circle – self drive or group/private tour.The novel’s title derives from a conversation between the men. As Redbone explains, there is no such thing as a truly perfect circle, it “can only ever exist as an idea”. Which means, he adds, “that we each carry one within us”. Den perfekten Kreis. Den könnten wir niemals hinbekommen. Er existiert nicht. Ehrlich gesagt, ich glaube, nichts was von Menschen gemacht wird, kann je perfekt sein.“ (S. 107) Der perfekte Kreis“ von Benjamin Myers ist ein ganz ganz leises Buch, das sich mühelos in mein Herz verpflanzt hat. Wieder einmal schafft Benjamin Myers hier Zeilen, in denen ich einfach so viel finden konnte und mit denen er all meine Sinne berührt hat!