For their season finale, they’re planning something extra special: the Honeycomb Double Helix, “a web of wonder” that promises to be nearly three times as long as the Palace of Westminster is high. As a journalist he has written about the arts and nature for publications including New Statesman, The Guardian, The Spectator, NME, Mojo, Time Out, New Scientist, Caught By The River, The Morning Star, Vice, The Quietus, Melody Maker and numerous others. Due to the proximity of the Golden Circle attractions to Reykjavik, it is one of the more popular routes in the country.

Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers | Book review The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers | Book review

Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. A secure home is the first step in addressing the cruel cycle of poverty to ensure people can fulfil their potential. Two counter-culture friends, bonded together through their art and quirks of personality, undergo an ambitious project of crop circles in ‘89, near London, attempting to outdo anything before constructed.

At the same time, I have been shocked, saddened and enlightened by what Jean Dubuffet termed art brut. The opening of the book is utterly gripping and perfectly sets the tone for what we are about to encounter. Every 10 minutes or so, t he water gets sucked all the way into the ground and then suddenly shoots up nearly 100 feet into the air.

Perfect Golden Circle’ by Benjamin Myers - WSJ Fiction: ‘The Perfect Golden Circle’ by Benjamin Myers - WSJ

Log in Keep reading with a freetrial Subscribe and get your first month of online and app access for free. Praise for The Offing: 'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness . If this wonderfully strange book does have a structure, it’s the succession of ever-magnifying crop circles, from the intermediate Alton Kellet Pathway to the earth-shattering Honeycomb Double Helix. When we read of how “existence is there until it isn’t”, or summer described as a “cold-blooded lizard beast sitting deep in the ancient dust of an ancient island”, it’s the ambiguity, the deceptive simplicity, that hits home.Slowly, through the routes of thought, dialogue and confrontation, Myers bares the souls of his circle makers. This is a handsome story set in the late eighties about two men who meet up at regular intervals to plan the creation of increasingly complex crop circles in the south west of England one hot, dry summer. Although a little meandering, and sometimes taking on one too many a theme for such a short book, I deeply enjoyed this tale of two damaged men finding companionship, connection and escape in the secret- and unconventional art of crop-circle making.