An Evening with Kat Dunn, Jodie Matthews, and Lucy Rose - Birmingham

Join us for a brilliant event with Kat Dunn, Jodie Matthews, and Lucy Rose to discuss their dark, Gothic novels!

About the Books

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Recasting Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla as a sensual sapphic chiller, Dunn's gothic delight sees a wealthy but unsatisfied couple fall prey to the bewitching charms of a vampiric temptress.“Hungerstone is an extraordinary book: a dark, sensuous, gothic story of female appetite, ravenous desire andinsatiable rage. A blood-drenched, glittering jewel of a novel that I absolutely devoured.” - Jennifer Saint

Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews

A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home. Everything that comes from the ground has to go back down… eventually.“Assured and beautifully written, Jodie Matthews’ novel is an astonishing debut. It’s rare to find the Cornwall which most of us Cornish recognise in modern literature, but it’s here in all its vivid and magical glory. Rhythmic, atmospheric and endearing.” - Charlie Carroll

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts – and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.“Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn – everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose’s fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon.” - Benjamin Myers