THE BIG ISSUE'S CULTURAL ATTACHÉS PICK THEIR TOP READS

CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON ACTOR Mary Beard’s Women and Power is eerily timely in the wake of the revelations about the patriarchy and its abuses. It is beautifully written and it is urgently essential reading for every man on the planet. How I wish I could have read this as a younger person. The A Word, BBC iPlayer ROBERT MACFARLANE AUTHOR Ben Myers' The Gallows Pole is not only one of my books of the year, it also has my cover of the year: Sergeant Pepper meets The Omen by way of 1930s Penguin paperbacks. It's the best thing Myers has done; fierce, gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises. Much admiration both to its author and its publisher, the small, heavy-punching indie Bluemoose Books, based in Hebden…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 18-12-2017

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