"Nobody does troubled figures in a stunning landscape like Ben Myers. He's a major force in the English novel and he gets better with every book." Max Porter, author of Grief is The Thing With Feathers and Lanny


From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create over the course of a long, hot and very strange summer.

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.
Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatized ex-soldier Calvert, and affable and chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, designs so intricate that they inspire the kind of awe that the ancient Gothic cathedral in nearby Salisbury once inspired.

As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation - and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.

But as harvest-time beckons -- and as media and the authorities begin to take too much interest in their work-- Calvert and Redbone have to race against time to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived: the Honeycomb Double Helix.

Moving and exhilarating, and recalling the apocalyptic visions of William Blake, Alan Moore and Cormac MacCarthy, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating, tender and slyly witty novel about the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.
About the Author: Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist, whose work has been translated into many languages. His novels include the best-seller The Offing, which was serialized on BBC Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime', was a London Times Book of the Year, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick and an Observer pick for 2019. It was also a bestseller in Germany. His other titles include The Gallows Pole, which the won Walter Scott Prize 2018, the world's largest prize for historical fiction; These Darkening Days; Turning Blue and Beastings, winner of the Portico Prize For Literature and a Northern Writers' Award.

Pig Iron (2012) won the Gordon Burn Prize and Richard (2010) was a bestseller, chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its books of the year. His writing has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Mojo, New Statesman, New Scientist, The Spectator, The Big Issue, Le Monde, Caught By The River and others.

He was born in Durham, UK, in 1976. He currently lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, UK.

www.benmyers.com