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The best new books released in April, as selected by avid readers and critics

Our favourite new reads include a playful anti-thriller, the latest from a Booker winner, and a book that questions if we can still enjoy the art of bad people.

ABC News

The Gallows Pole: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and more on Shane Meadows' period drama

The Gallows Pole on BBC2 tells the story of a gang of 18th-century weavers and land-workers who embark on an ambitious criminal plot.

WhatToWatch

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of I Will Find You by Harlan Coben and Cuddy by Benjamin Myers.

The Independent UK

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Cuddy by Benjamin Myers review – a polyphonic hymn to the north-east

The novelist’s afterlife of St Cuthbert spans centuries and volumes, making for a vibrant alternative history of the region

The Guardian - UK

Cuddy by Benjamin Myers review – a visionary history

An Anglo-Saxon saint speaks down the centuries in a sensational piece of storytelling about Britain’s past and present

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Myers: ‘My comfort read? Viz’

The writer and journalist on Jon Savage’s punk bible, coming back to DH Lawrence and finding comfort in Wodehouse’s Eggs, Beans and Crumpets

The Guardian - UK

The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers review – rollicking crop-circle folk tale

A spirited and anarchic novel about 80s outsiders on a quest to bring magic to the landscape

The Guardian - UK

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Novelist Benjamin Myers talks crop circles and climate change in ‘The Perfect Golden Circle’

As night falls during the hot turbulent summer of 1989, two men slip into the darkened fields of England to manufacture strangely inspired artworks that transfix and baffle the nation.

The Orange County Register

Review: 'The Perfect Golden Circle,' by Benjamin Myers

In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley came clean: They — not aliens, or whatever the going theory was at the time — had taken planks of wood and lengths of rope and made crop circles in the south of England, starting in the late 1970s. What began as a…

Tribune News Service

The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers review – grand designs

In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field

The Guardian - UK

Loving dad killed by his drunk son had repeatedly begged him to stop drinking so much

Neil Farrington, 51, was brutally killed when his own son flew into a drunken rage where witnesses said he smashed his dad's face into the ground and 'volleyed' his head

Daily Mirror

Loving dad killed by 'coward' son he tried to save from pub fight

Neil Farrington tried to stop Neil Badrock getting into drunken violence but his son turned on him

Liverpool Echo

Son tells murder trial he headbutted his dad after 'being grabbed by the throat'

Neil Badrock claimed he headbutted, kicked and punched his dad in response to being grabbed by the throat

Liverpool Echo

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