Andrew Michael Hurley

For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, have lived uneasily with forces beyond their reckoning. They raise their families, work the land, and do their best to welcome those who come seeking respite. But there is a darkness that runs through...

After the blizzard of a century ago, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the Devil had done, was already fable. Devil's Day is a day for children now, of course. A tradition it's easy to mock, from the outside. But it's important to remember why we...

ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY has hved in Manchester and London and is now based in his native Lancashire. Starting his literary life as a short-story writer, Hurley published two collections - Cages and The Unusual Death of Julie Christie - before writing The Loney, his first novel. 'I read The Loney...