![Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith artwork](https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts113/v4/f4/2a/38/f42a3830-9680-9cf8-dba5-2240522bb61b/mza_3036075435530941020.jpeg/100x100bb.jpg)
Benjamin Myers: The Offing
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
English - April 23, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBArts Fiction food books cooking authors reading foodwriting climate sustainability Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Kate Young: The Little Library Cookbook
Next Episode: Sara Paretsky: Dead Land
This week Gilly Smith chats (remotely) with award-winining author, Benjamin Myers whose success with his previous novels, particularly The Gallows Pole has given him the accolade of the most powerful new voices in literature. In this, his eighth novel, The Offing, he tells a Homeric tale of Robert, a 16 year old boy who sets out across 1950’s Yorkshire to Robin Hood’s Bay and finds a gloriously long summer of food, poetry and an unlikely freidnship with an eccentric and artistic older woman called Dulcie.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.