Jake Arnott

Jake Arnott is the author of nine novels. His critically acclaimed and bestselling debut The Long Firm was adapted as a BAFTA award-winning BBC TV series. He has since published He Kills Coppers (which was made into a widely praised ITV1 drama), Johnny Come Home, The Devil’s Paintbrush, The House of Rumour, The Fatal Tree and Blood Rival. 

Jake’s new novel Netherwood is a sensuous and unsettling modern gothic folk horror about a young couple who move to the town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist. After personal trauma and professional failure in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings, hoping that the charming fisherman’s cottage overlooking the sea will be the perfect place to make a new life together. But their new home holds many secrets, including a cave at the back of it, and a witch bottle said to ward off bad…