Career
He was interviewed on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Open Book programme "British Gothic" in October 2015. The Loney has been reviewed in The Guardian and The Telegraph. lieutenant is set in the area of Morecambe Bay in north west England, described in the text as "that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune".
Hurley has said that the novel"s two starting points were "to write a kind of dark version of the Nativity and exploring ideas of faith and belief" and "various wild, lonely places on the north west coast of Lancashire a sense of imminent menace or dormant power lying just under the sand and the water".
Hurley has previously had two volumes of short stories published by the Lime Tree Press (Cages and Other Stories, 2006,, and The Unusual Death of Julie Christie and Other Stories, 2008, ). He lives in Lancashire, where he teaches English literature and creative writing.
