After a good run - The Offing, The Perfect Golden Circle, Cuddy, Rare Singles - Jesus Christ Kinski is the first Benjamin Myers novel in a few years that I haven't had the opportunity to enthuse about for Buzz. Centred around irascible German actor Klaus Kinski's infamous 1971 one-man show playing Jesus, the book is very different to anything he's written before - but then that's his modus operandi, and the reviews suggest it's another winner.
Appearing as a guest on Jen Bowden's Northern Voices podcast recently, Myers talked about Jesus Christ Kinski and some of its predecessors, as well as discussing diversity and tokenism in the publishing industry and having not a chip but perhaps a crisp on his shoulder as a proudly northern writer in a world that still revolves around London and the south east.
The conversation left me all the more convinced that I really must seek out his early novel Pig Iron. It was also good to learn that the big-screen adaptation of The Offing will be filming next year, with conversations about a similar treatment for The Perfect Golden Circle in process and a new novel and novella set for publication in 2027.
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