Celebrate spooky season with a chilling new novel about guilt and redemption from the 'master of menace' and the addictively unsettling tale of a frightening, compelling anti-hero who moves across time and space.Join us with Andrew Michael Hurley and Susan Barker to discuss their latest novels Saltwash and Old Soul.Andrew Michael Hurley is based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, won the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Devil's Day, his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers, and won the Encore Award. Starve Acre was made into a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark in 2024 and Barrowbeck, a collection of interlinked stories set in the same fictional village was published the same year.Susan Barker is the author of four books. Her third novel, The Incarnations, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews’ Top Ten Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from her fourth novel, Old Soul, won a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction in 2020. Susan currently lives in Manchester, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
