Impressive ... Myers' compassionate and tender approach to his characters makes even the most flawed of them worthy of empathy

New Statesman

In his varied, and often satirical, takes on an alternative English history, steeped in the mythic, folkloric and grotesque, Myers taps into a rich vein of Yorkshire gothic, both menacing and comically absurd, its register set somewhere between Ted Hughes, Emily Bronte and The League of Gentlemen. The stories resonate most when his dark humour and lyricism combined

Times Literary Supplement

Richly distinctive stories, with unnerving, dark plotlines ... Bleakly funny

Independent

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