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  <title>Christmas Special 2024: with Jenn Ashworth and Andrew Michael Hurley</title>
  <description>In the second of our 2024 Christmas Specials -&amp;amp;nbsp;join me,&amp;amp;nbsp;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:&amp;amp;nbsp; Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon BlackwoodDon't Tell Cissy by Celia Fremlin Jenn Ashworth&amp;amp;nbsp;is novelist and Professor of Writing at Lancaster University. Her novels include&amp;amp;nbsp;A Kind of Intimacy,&amp;amp;nbsp;The Friday Gospels&amp;amp;nbsp;and&amp;amp;nbsp;Fell. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. In 2019 she published&amp;amp;nbsp;Notes Made While Falling, a memoir told in a series of essays. Her latest novel is&amp;amp;nbsp;Ghosted: A Love Story. Jenn has written a brand new introduction for a new edition of&amp;amp;nbsp;A Helping Hand by Celia Dale.&amp;amp;nbsp; Follow Jenn on Instagram here. Andrew Michael Hurley's first novel,&amp;amp;nbsp;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.&amp;amp;nbsp;Starve Acre was published by John Murray in 2019 and has recently been adapted into a film starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith.&amp;amp;nbsp;His most recent novel,&amp;amp;nbsp;Barrowbeck, is out now. &amp;amp;nbsp;   SUPPORT ME ON PATREON www.patreon.com/adamzrobinson Join us on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/theghoststorybookclub/ Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social&amp;amp;nbsp;   </description>
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