Andrew Michael Hurley is a novelist and short story writer based in the north of England. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published in 2014 by Tartarus Press and then John Murray a year later, after which it won the 2015 Costa First Novel Award and the 2016 British Book Industry awards for Debut Novel and Book of the Year. Devil’s Day was published in 2017 and went on to jointly win the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award for best second novel. His third novel, Starve Acre, published in 2019, was adapted into a feature film, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. His BBC Radio 4 series, Voices in the Valley, which aired in autumn 2022 and won bronze at the 2023 Aria Awards for audio and radio broadcasts, formed the basis of the critically acclaimed novel, Barrowbeck, published in 2024. His latest novel, Saltwash, came out in October 2025.
