Fiction
Benjamin has written 3 novels, 'The Book Of Fuck', 'Richard', and 'Pig Iron'.
Pig Iron (2012) - "This work is an unflinching testament to Margaret Thatcher's legacy, dealing as it does with two groups of people who took the brunt of her viciousness - travellers and the former coalmining communities of the North East. Two generations denied any such thing as society, existing instead in the concrete circles of sink estate hell; succoured by poverty, weaned on mind-erasing drugs, ruled over by bullies in the Iron Lady's image and rendered vicious by fear." Cathi Unsworth
"Richard (2010) is not a provocation, nor does it claim to solve the Richey mystery. It is a sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol before that notion became oxymoronic." Time Out
"I have no doubt that The Book Of Fuck will find its place as an underground classic - part of the anti-canon in which I suspect the works of such as Bukowski, de Sade, Anais Nin, Celine, Hamsun, Bataille, and others will always reside parallel to the official canons of the academies." Gerald Locklin