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. If you are fine with just seeing each place for 30 minutes and moving on to the next then that can be done in 6 hours. The blank clock-like face fades from view as the black shutter of the earth’s shadow covers it to create a total lunar eclipse, and for a few seconds it feels as if the darkness will be unending and absolute.

Two men, flotsam of the 1980s – Calvert, a Falklands veteran, and Redbone, a failed punk musician – tramp across the English countryside in 1989 making crop circles. It is a form of therapy for him, something to focus his traumatic mind upon, a way of setting that aside for this. Calvert is a Falklands veteran, suffering post traumatic stress, whilst Redbone is a free-wheeling traveller of sorts, a musician who has wandered Europe with various small-time bands, living a life of protest and substance enhanced contemplation. It was the time of illegal raves and New Age Travellers and the Thatcher era was beginning to wind down with protests about the poll tax. Their designs—which they craft without breaking a single stalk of wheat so that their guerrilla work is art, not destruction—attracts worldwide attention and the speculation of conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters, certain these crop circles are a sign that a life force from beyond Earth is trying to send humans a message.

They were strangers at the story's opening and by the conclusion, they have become dear friends and we are completely and utterly invested in their lives. His new offering 'The Perfect Golden Circle' shows a culmination in all of these areas and Myers delivers a story that has a huge heart beating at the very centre of this particular golden circle.

Redbone und Calvert haben ihre ganz eigenen Motive und Handlungsweisen, auch ihr Umgang miteinander hat mir gefallen. It tells the story of Calvert, an ex soldier who hates war and Redbone, a free man in every sense of the word. By renting a car you will have more freedom to choose when and where to go, and you will be on your own schedule. It is a work of love, and a work about works of love, and a work that evokes a sense of love in the reader. Myers ode to a great gentle friendship and the huge satisfaction of creating beauty and being in harmony with the natural world around us.Neben dem rein sportlichen Faktor hat die Aktion therapeutische Wirkung (Calvert ist im Einsatz seiner militärischen Sondereinheit traumatisiert), aber auch anarchistische Züge, da beide Männer ihren Staat als natürlichen Feind ansehen. Aber eines ist gewiss: Benjamin Myers ist mit „Der perfekte Kreis“ verdammt nah am perfekten Roman (obwohl es den wahrscheinlich auch nicht gibt – ebenso wie den perfekten Kreis *g*). A controversial combination of biography and novel, Richard (2010) was a bestseller and chosen as a Sunday Times book of the year. Crop circles are the thing that tie Calvert and Redbone together and the sweltering southern England summer of 1989 is the backdrop of this narrative meander through vast and remote fields, giving substance to a purpose that doesn’t need words to express. If in Iceland for a day or for a month, odds are you will make your way around the famous Golden Circle route.