![]() Includes a Foreword by Benjamin Myers exclusive to this USA edition from Third Man Books. ![]() It explores contemporary themes including wealth, abuse of power, class, corruptions, borders and boundaries and national identity. To me, listening to this adds another dimension to the enjoyment of this story and I cannot recommend it highly enough. From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to. An English western, The Gallows Pole is a poetic and visceral telling of a secret history and a wild landscape. The narrator Malk Williams has the Calderdale voices down perfectly and I sat back and enjoyed the richness of the descriptions of the valley and the countryside and the colourful dialogue of the gang of forgers and the valley folk. When I saw that Gallows Pole was now on Audible too, I instantly handed over coin again to hear the story told over again. I also purchased the excellent album by the Shining Levels of folk song inspired by Ben Myers' novel. I liked it so much that went over to Mytholmroyd to re-trace the footsteps of the coiner gang through Bell Hole Woods and up to King David's home at Bell House on the edge of Erringden Moor and afterwards visited the White Lion pub in Heptonstall and the excellent local museum that includes coiner artefacts. ![]() Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. The gruesome tale of the Cragg Vale Coinersīeing from West Yorkshire and interested in local history I read the Gallows Pole when it was first published and loved the gruesome tale of "King" David Hartley and his merry band of counterfeiters in 18th Century Calderdale. Third Man Books debut fiction novel, The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers, is for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Ted Hughes, Daniel Woodrell, David Peace. ![]()
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