Benjamin Myers

Available for over a year

Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his novel The Perfect Golden Circle. In his novels, poetry and short stories, Benjamin Myers has long focussed on landscape and the mystical power of place. His previous award-winning novels include The Gallows Pole, Beatings and Pig Iron. Now comes The Perfect Golden Circle or The Strange Rites of an English Summer which explores the healing power of nature in a very different way. We hear from Lulah Ellender, whose book Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden is about creating a thriving green space in a plot which might soon be lost. Writers Charlie Porter and Charlotte Moore join Johny to discuss the rich history of garden writing and the importance of green and verdant spaces in precarious times. Book List – Sunday 29 May and Thursday 2 June The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers Beastings by Benjamin Myers Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden by Lulah Ellender What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter Hancox by Charlotte Moore The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett Modern Nature by Derek Jarman Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Unearthed: On Race and Roots and How Soil Taught me to Belong by Claire Ratinon The Garden by Andrew Marvell