Andrew Michael Hurley Books in Order

These stories explore people whose lives strain against confinement, tracing the damage caused by feeling trapped. Alongside moments of brutality and hope, the collection considers the appealing restrictions people deliberately accept and the contradictions within their own chosen boundaries.

A romance in Rhodes crosses competing realities, a couple struggles with parenthood in rural France, and a Polish immigrant faces an unfamiliar city. These stories follow uncertain transitions, examining what people discover about love as one chapter of life closes.

Two brothers join a religious pilgrimage to a remote Lancashire coast, where their family hopes to cure the older boy's muteness. Exploring a tidal island draws them toward strange rituals and secrets that persist into adulthood.

John Pentecost brings his new wife back to his family's remote farming community after his grandfather dies. Preparing the sheep for winter means revisiting local rituals and unsettling stories about a devil haunting the surrounding moors.

After their young son's death, Richard and Juliette pursue different ways of coping at their isolated home. Her contact with occultists and his excavation of a legendary tree draw their grief toward something increasingly disturbing.

Across two thousand years, generations inhabit an isolated valley on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border. As old customs give way to development, the people of Barrowbeck forget their place in the landscape and face the darkness gathering around them.

Terminally ill Tom Shift visits his cancer pen pal Oliver Keele at a decaying seaside hotel. Drawn into a gathering that promises absolution, Tom discovers that the other guests’ hopes and his own guilt carry disturbing consequences.