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The Gallows Pole
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners, and their business is clipping - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death.
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- RF
- 13-04-23
Fantastic
I thought this was brilliant. The narration brought the characters to life wonderfully. Hard men in a hard landscape. I’m glad I listened to it rather than reading it. Such a interesting story too. Can’t praise it enough. I wish Benjamin Myers could for Sussex what he has done here.
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- J. D. Tomlinson
- 19-07-19
Interesting, informative and entertaining.
I very much enjoyed this audiobook. I knew nothing about the coining trade in the 18th century and was fascinated by the gumption of the coiners. Although I didn't find any of the characters particularly likeable, I was moved by the descriptions of poverty and found some of the violent scenes really shocking. All credit to the author, this book is incredibly well written.
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- Tiggerlootoo
- 10-04-23
Excellent
Interesting and insightful. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Has made me want to research the subject of coin clipping and visit York!
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- jesjaspers
- 06-10-19
Authentic narration
Grand use of narration to bring otherwise hard to read phonetically written dialect to life in order to relate a fictionalised account of an incredible historical story perhaps little known today outside its locale until this book justifiably won the Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize. Excellent all round.
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- Peter Richardson
- 26-11-22
Astonishingly good
An amazing story, beautifully written in almost poetic prose and delivered here in a voice rich with the sounds of ‘Jorvikshire’. I couldn’t help but listen and listen until there was no more.
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- N. P. Armstrong
- 11-06-23
Loved it from start to finish!
A poetic, moving and apposite paean for the working man attempting to resist the greed and inequality of capitalists and their army of servile flunkeys...
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- Tony Smith
- 28-05-20
Fascinating insight into defacing currency
Very well written account of a forgotten era of history when coins could be clipped
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- I Walker
- 04-02-22
Fantastic, really enjoyed it
Great gritty writing, splendid imagery. Loved the story. The Golden Age of the coiners and their destruction by the state and capitalist interests, their subjection to the new factory economy brings to mind the harrowing of the industrial areas by 1980's Finance Capitalism. RIP King David
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- gr stooge
- 30-07-22
Fascinating story
Amazing story based on true events that happened in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, less than 5 miles from where I live.
This story really brought the characters to life, the dialect and accent by the narrator is spot on.
I have done the coiners walk from Mytholmroyd on a few occasions, I feel the urge to do it again soon, after finishing the book.
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- Laura W.
- 24-10-19
Loved every moment.
An amazing story which will inform and enlighten its readers about the character of the Calder Valley then and now! Not sure about the narrator's grasp on all the place names but it's a minor point and will only grate on those from the area.
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