Portico prize winner Benjamin Myers: 'Why bother chasing the big publishers?'

theguardian.com – Wednesday December 9, 2015

After being turned down by ‘every major publisher in London’ for his Portico winning novel Beastings, the author says landing the £10,000 prize ‘felt like a vindication’.

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