• Christmas Special 2024: with Jenn Ashworth and Andrew Michael Hurley

  • Dec 23 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
  • Podcast

Christmas Special 2024: with Jenn Ashworth and Andrew Michael Hurley

  • Summary

  • In the second of our 2024 Christmas Specials - join me, Adam Z. Robinson, and my guests Jenn Ashworth (author of Ghosted, A Kind of Intimacy and Fell) and Andrew Michael Hurley (author of The Loney, Starve Acre and Barrowbeck). We discussed three ghost stories for Christmas:

    Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper
    The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood
    Don't Tell Cissy by Celia Fremlin

    Jenn Ashworth is novelist and Professor of Writing at Lancaster University. Her novels include A Kind of Intimacy, The Friday Gospels and Fell. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. In 2019 she published Notes Made While Falling, a memoir told in a series of essays. Her latest novel is Ghosted: A Love Story. Jenn has written a brand new introduction for a new edition of A Helping Hand by Celia Dale.

    Follow Jenn on Instagram here.

    Andrew Michael Hurley's first novel, The Loney won the Costa Best First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book Industry 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 published by John Murray in 2019 and has recently been adapted into a film starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith. His most recent novel, Barrowbeck, is out now.

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