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‘Ten Men’ was written for the International Literature Showcase 2017, through the National Centre for Writing. It also appeared in print in The New Issue in 2020.
‘Snorri & Frosti’ was first published in 2013 as a downloadable story as part of Galley Beggar Press’s Singles Club. It was also published as a limited-edition chapbook by 3:AM Books in 2014.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Kathryn Myers for her input. My agents, Jessica Woollard, Clare Israel and Alice Howe, and all at David Higham Associates. My editor, Angelique Tran Van Sang, Terry Lee, Allegra Le Fanu and all at Bloomsbury. Thanks also to Alexa von Hirschberg.
I also extend gratitude to the following editors: Susie Troup. Will Atkins. Eloise Millar and Sam Jordison. Susan Tomaselli, Christiana Spens and Andrew Gallix. Suze Olbrich and Sharon O’Connell. Michael Curran. Antonia Charlesworth and Kevin Gopal. Adam Pugh. The Society of Authors. Love and respect: Cally Callomon, Gabrielle Drake and Shane Meadows.
And thank you to Adelle Stripe and my family and friends.
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His most recent novel The Offing was a bestseller. Other works include The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, and Beastings, which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature. Pig Iron won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels, while his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, The Spectator, Caught By The River and many more.
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