Moving fast and deadly, the stories in Male Tears carry us from bleak farms to lonely reservoirs and snowbound woods. Benjamin Myers writes sentences with a charging pulse and the account they give of masculinity is a bloody one, stripped of romance and larded with wit

Chris Power

Benjamin Myers' stories in Male Tears cut right to the heart of the matter. This is fiction to be taken in gulps of pleasure - full of fire and light, wisdom and violence

Rob Doyle

One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation

Daily Mail

A powerful new voice

The Times

Myers is the master of rural English noir

Paul Kingsnorth

One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times

David Peace