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# The Gallows Pole Paperback – May 17, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    2018 winner of Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2018*

I hesitate to write a review for this book because I cannot do it justice. I want to say The Gallows Pole is lyrical, evocative, moving, haunting and memorable, but I have used these adjectives so many times to describe lesser books.While reading this true story of the David Hartley and the Clagg Vale Coiners I could see the moors, hear the wind, feel the deep bone aching weariness of the hardworking men and women of 18th century Yorkshire. Benjamin Myers' prose took me out of my own environment and set me in Upper Calder Valley. I didn't want the book to end because I didn't want to leave the moors that Myers evoked.The story is set in the late 18th century when the great mills started to be built around England. Life was hard for families of Yorkshire. Weaving, farming, iron work, making charcoal, building the stone walls that still wind through the country today took a painful toll on the body and after all their hard work people were still hungry and cold in lean months. When rumors of large tracts of land being sold and great mills being built that shut down the family looms and farms the people feared the loss of their freedom and their way of life, hard as it was. This was when David Hartley, with his brothers William and Issac, created their own cottage industry of coining-counterfeiting.With a blend brutality and generosity they recruited a large group of men to work with them, and those that weren't involved kept the secret of the coiners and of their leader King David Hartley. For a few years the villages of the area were fed and warm, they had extra things and good clothes, money flowed. But the march of Capitalism will not be slowed and wealthy men will not be bested by poor men. When a man of the Crown, William Deighton, an excise officer, discovers who the charismatic leader of the band of coiners is he vows to bring him to justice.The story is engaging and moves at a good pace, but what makes this book so special is the character King David with his passion for his family, for the landscape, and his connection to the natural world. The character of visionary King David set against the character of moralistic William Deighton, also a family man who feels a strong, mystical connection to the moors he haunts every night, creates a gripping tension.  Both men feel they are doing very important work, both feel strongly that they are protecting a way of life. King David is protecting a way of life that is being extinguished while Deighton is paving the way for the future. Both men are caught up in the magic and mystery of the moors and I too was swept up in the magic and mystery of the moors.I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. It deserved more than 5 stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautiful and brutal
  

*by B***C on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018*

Beautiful and brutal. Myers maintains a total control of language throughout--I mean this as the highest praise.I probably don't have much to add to the accolades this book has already gotten, all of which I agree with, but I do want to mention how beautifully made the book is. The cover art on front, back, and spine is striking. I mean this is some seriously badass design work here. I love the idea of someone seeing this in a bookstore and being compelled to pick it up and leaf through it just by this book-as-beautiful-object quality alone.

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    This is such a good historical novel about a common man
  

*by "***" on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2018*

Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2017. This is such a good historical novel about a common man, albeit an outlaw, in 1770s West Yorkshire known by the villagers as "King" David Hartley of the Cragg Vale Coiners or the Turvin Clippers. The poor inhabitants of this area made their trade in looming and farming and were struggling to feed and clothe their families. Outlaws, David Hartley, and his brothers turned to clipping coins and melting and forging new coins, flooding the economy with counterfeit money. The spoils were then used to purchase food and clothing that could be distributed to the valley people. David Hartley had a grandiose view of himself and was said to have visions. However, he was a sort of Robin Hood to his neighbors, taking from the people of means and giving to the poor. The practice of clipping coin had been going on for a long time, mainly due to England acknowledging the use of foreign currencies in the country. These coins were made to resemble Portuguese coins. However, the depleted economy soon brings the attention of the local tax and legal authorities in the neighboring Halifax. We see the devastation created by the coining.During this same time period and place, the industrial revolution was ramping up in England with turnpikes being built as well as man-made waterways with water wheels to power factory mills. Children were working in these mills and factories and getting severely injured or killed. The mills' smokestacks were polluting the surrounding communities. The people in David Hartley's country were being threatened by the changing of times and naturally wanted to cling to their ways of looming and farming. David Hartley found himself hunted down as a result of a turncoat coiner fueled by the greed of a financial reward and a hatred of David Hartley. He was jailed and later hanged at Tyburn Hill and buried at St. Thomas a Beckett churchyard.This novel does not romanticize the outlaw's case for coining or side with the authorities in their lawfulness but provides a story to be seen from all angles. There is brutality throughout the novel as the outlaws retaliate against the turncoats and some lawmen in attempt to prevent the disruption of their business. Alongside the chapters in the novel, there is a diary/memoirs being written by David Hartley from his cell in prison in an earlier form of English from his viewpoint.It is evident by the References section at the end of the book that Benjamin Myers conducted a lot of research to write about this important time in history. This novel is unique in that it tells the true story of a common man in a time/place that deserves to be told.

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