The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022

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If in Iceland for a day or for a month, odds are you will make your way around the famous Golden Circle route. Benjamin Myers is a British former music journalist whose work appeared in leading publications including NME, Melody Maker, MOJO and Kerrang. This is a handsome story set in the late eighties about two men who meet up at regular intervals to plan the creation of increasingly complex crop circles in the south west of England one hot, dry summer.

All living things are connected between seed and sod, and sod and sky, and when one component in the chain of production is altered, ailing or inefficient the entire ecosystem suffers. An impromptu celebration on the beach at sunset with champagne becomes a weekly touchpoint to their lives as they learn more about each other and themselves.The other is the flawed creative who dreams up the wonderfully named designs which will culminate in the Honeycomb Double Helix if all goes to plan. Redbone and Calvert stop what they are doing and stare upwards until their necks ache, not daring to drag their eyes away from the empyrean display.

Themes of British colonisation weigh heavily throughout the narrative, informed mostly by Calvert’s experiences of fighting in the Falklands war. The glue that holds this story together is the relationship and development of our two protagonists. Each chapter covers a pattern whilst telling enough of their background stories for you to feel totally invested by the final chapter "Honeycomb Double Helix". He also lives in the “second smallest house” in England, and keeps meaning to take the measurements of the smallest house. That place of peace and reflection is something that is hard to discover in a modern society where our chaotic lives have so many trappings for our time and attention.He has always felt profound and important but entertainment has never seemed like the key motivation. Diese Lückenhaftigkeit, diese Unvollkommenheit in vielen Bereichen unseres Lebens und Wirkens zieht sich thematisch durch Myers Roman. Two counter-culture friends, bonded together through their art and quirks of personality, undergo an ambitious project of crop circles in ‘89, near London, attempting to outdo anything before constructed.