Why we chose Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy as the Goldsmiths Prize winner
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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