Price
- £5.00
Length
- 90
We are thrilled to be joined by the award-winning author Jenn Ashworth, who will be in conversation with Lancaster University’s Professor Catherine Spooner.
This October sees the release of two chilling anthologies featuring short stories written by Jenn.
From the beaches of Orkney to the Welsh mountains, and the Derbyshire peaks to the Cornish moors, Britain is home to many strange creatures of folklore. Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain's mythical beasts (Raven Books) brings you tales inspired by the monsters that share our land, written by of the country's most acclaimed authors (including Janice Hallett, Rosie Andrews and Stuart Turton).
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Chatto & Windus) is an electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices. Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.
Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels The Parallel Path (2025), A Kind of Intimacy (2009), which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light (2011), The Friday Gospels (2013), Fell (2016) and Ghosted (2021), which was shortlisted for the Portico Prize. In 2019, she published a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling (Goldsmith’s Press), which was a New Statesman Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.
Only 50 places available, so pre-booking is advised.
