The author, whose novel ‘The Gallows Pole’ is coming to TV, describes a turbulent time very much like our own.
As night falls during the hot turbulent summer of 1989, two men slip into the darkened fields of England to manufacture strangely inspired artworks that transfix and baffle the nation.
Myers spoke from his home in Hebden Bridge, a small artistic West Yorkshire town between Leeds and Manchester in England. A journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Mojo and Le Monde, Myers’ books include “The Offing,” “Pig Iron” and “The Gallows Pole,” the latter of which is being adapted for TV. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.The idea came about came to me in the middle of a crop field in the summer. It just kind of arrived.
I really wanted to kind of explore the idea of who did them and why, because it’s such an ego-free pursuit. These days, when you do a creative endeavor, you want your name on it, and you want the acclaim. So the anonymity of the crop circle creators was what drew me to them. The book, it’s kind of been a slow-burning thing in the UK; it came out five years ago and it’s had a real, like, small indie band growth to it.
Not really, no. I mean, it’s word of mouth, I think, and booksellers got behind it. It started really locally, it was first published by a little indie publisher who were based about a mile from here, Bluemoose. We’ve kind of built it up that way in Yorkshire, then the north of England, then all of England and Britain. And then it won this prize, the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, which turned out to be quite a big deal.
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