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The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022

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Pig Ironis an important book because it tells a story that has shaped all contemporary Western humans, but is routinely, inexplicably overlooked – the great move from agricultural life to industrial life. The respect in which that shapes human culture and individual humans.”—Deborah Orr This is about much more than just crop circles. It is obviously about the friendship between Redbone and Calvert. They share scraps of their lives and loves (in Redbone’s case) and the way they see society. Calvert has some reflections on his time in the army and his country: 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. Mark began the interview by asking Benjamin about the lead characters. ‘Calvert and Redbone, the two mates that we follow in this book, who are they and what are they up to?’ 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.

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Calvert looks at him. He looks at him until it feels like the crops have withered, the seas have risen and the sun has burned itself out to an ashen cinder. He shakes his head. “I do wonder about you sometimes.”’ Pretty good, though the characters felt a bit flat to me and I would have liked the structure to be a bit more diverse.Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving, and crucial voices of our times.” — David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet Summer 1989, rural England, the tail end of long decade of mass unemployment, class war and rebellion, and the continued destruction of the English countryside. Benjamin Myers uses the efforts of the real-life Bower and Chorley as the jumping-off point for his latest novel…[it]has much to say about art, but it also has an allegorical feel.” — The Star Tribune As Redbone rightly tells us, there is no perfect circle but Dum spiro spero (While I breath I hope), so we continue striving, breathing, hoping, eventhough PTSD is crippling us or the world buffets as along from one gig to another. Myers ode to a great gentle friendship and the huge satisfaction of creating beauty and being in harmony with the natural world around us.

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The second option here is to do a private or group tour around the Golden Circle. This option is usually best for those who do not feel comfortable with renting a car or want some more insight into certain places they are visiting. REZENSION - „Solange ich atme, hoffe ich“. Dieses Mantra einer der beiden Hauptfiguren im neuen Roman „Der perfekte Kreis“ des britischen Schriftstellers Benjamin Myers (45), erschienen im September beim Dumont Verlag, zeigt in wenigen Worten, dass trotz aller Mühen unser Wirken auf Erden unvollkommen ist. Vollkommenheit bleibt eine unerfüllte und wohl unerfüllbare Hoffnung. Auf diesen Widerspruch zwischen Hoffnung und Wirklichkeit verweist auch der Titel dieser wunderbaren Novelle, kann es doch den perfekten Kreis nicht geben, wie schon das Cover mit der Abbildung des Ensō-Symbols aus der japanischen Kalligraphie deutlich macht. Nur ein vollkommener Mensch könne demnach ein wahres Ensō zeichnen, während die Öffnung Unvollkommenheit symbolisiert.Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own. The ballad of Redbone and Calvert somehow combines the ease and warmth of T he Offing with the sinew and menace of The Gallows Pole -- JOHN MITCHINSON Quietly gripping ... Written with Myers's customary grit and brio ... A welcome advance, one that sees Myers effortlessly extending his range * GUARDIAN * If you are planning on being in Iceland for more than a couple days and/or want to explore more places outside of Reykavik, odds are you will want to rent your own car.

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The Perfect Golden Circle is the perfect short story. That's precisely how it landed with me—a captured moment in time, an excerpt from a much longer narrative of these central characters, how they came together, what would happen to as their lives rolled along... and yet it is a novel, if only because its length shelves it as such. Myers keenly observes the men’s distant yet intimate friendship…the conversations between the two protagonists are illuminating…”— Publishers Weekly Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men — Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable, off-the-grid friend Redbone — set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project,traversing the fields of rural England and creating crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. Take a look at Viator forsome of the highly rated day trip tour optionsthat can take care of everything for you along the way.

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Note that one of the attractions listed below (Bruarfoss) is usually not included in group tours – you might be able to ask to add it in to a private tour though. 3) When To Go Around Summer 1989, deep in the English countryside — during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . . . Due to the proximity of the Golden Circle attractions to Reykjavik, it is one of the more popular routes in the country. Though nature and the environment is a common theme to all Myers's work, there is more new ground embarked upon here than is retrodden. Humour has more of a place, though its foundations are deeply serious. How Treasure Island was born out of Robert Louis Stevenson trying to amuse his stepson on a wet summer holiday in Braemar

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