Press Room

Press, events and rights enquiries for Liz Hurley and her pen names, Eva St John and Anna Penrose.

Awards and recognition

  • Winner, Fiction – The Selfies Book Awards 2026, for Flint in the Bones (Eva St John)
  • Shortlisted, Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award – Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards 2021, for A New Life for Ariana Byrne (Liz Hurley)
  • Shortlisted, Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards (Gorsedh Kernow) – three years running:
    • 2022 – Walking with Saints and Tinners (Liz Hurley)
    • 2023 – Cycling in Cornwall (Liz Hurley); The Body in the Wall (Anna Penrose)
    • 2024 – Top Walks in West Cornwall (Liz Hurley); Dead Winter Bones (Anna Penrose)

In the press

Talks and events

  • The Self Publishing Show LIVE! 2022, London – panellist, ‘Quitting the 9 to 5’, with Benedict Brown, Gary Ross Jordan, Tracey Green and Megan Jolly. Liz has gone back every year since as a volunteer.
  • Penzance Literary Festival 2018 – ‘Be your own publisher! It’s easy’

Liz is happy to talk about indie publishing, writing across genres under different names, Norwich and its maps, and walking in Cornwall. For event enquiries, contact Mudlark’s Press.

Out in the world

Cornwall Hospice uses Liz’s guide Walking with Saints and Tinners for its fundraising Saints Way Trek.

Rights

Eva St John is represented by John Berlyne at the Zeno Literary Agency.

For all other rights enquiries, including audio, translation and the Cornish Walks guides, contact Mudlark’s Press.

About the author

Short bio

Liz Hurley was born in Norwich and lives on the north coast of Cornwall. A former librarian and bookseller, she founded Mudlark’s Press in 2016 and writes walking guides under her own name, women’s fiction as Liz Hurley, fantasy and science fiction as Eva St John and crime as Anna Penrose.

Long bio

Liz Hurley was born and brought up in Norwich, and spent years moving between Ireland, Wales and Cornwall. She trained as a librarian, then set up a bookshop in Mevagissey with her husband.

She started Mudlark’s Press in 2016 to publish walking guides for the visitors who came through the shop door. Those guides became the Cornish Walks series – eight books and counting. Along the way she wrote a newspaper column for the Cornish Guardian and a short history of Mevagissey.

Then came the fiction. As Liz Hurley she writes the Hiverton Sisters, five sisters who inherit a title they never asked for; the first book was shortlisted for the RNA’s debut award. As Anna Penrose she writes the Golden Murder Mysteries, set in a fictional Cornish fishing village; the first two were shortlisted for the Holyer an Gof awards. As Eva St John she wrote the Quantum Curators and now the Norwich Map Runners, which brings her back to the city she grew up in. The first, Flint in the Bones, won the Fiction category at the 2026 Selfies Book Awards.

She spoke at The Self Publishing Show LIVE! in 2022 and has volunteered there every year since. She now lives on the north coast of Cornwall.

Press kit

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Author photo

Liz Hurley, author

Eva St John

Flint in the Bones – coverFlint in the BonesFire in the Flint – coverFire in the FlintThe Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg – coverThe Quantum Curators and the Fabergé EggThe Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within – coverThe Quantum Curators and the Enemy WithinThe Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex – coverThe Quantum Curators and the Missing CodexThe Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline – coverThe Quantum Curators and the Shattered TimelineThe Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver – coverThe Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver

Anna Penrose

The Body in the Wall – coverThe Body in the WallDead Winter Bones – coverDead Winter BonesDeath at Castle Wolf – coverDeath at Castle Wolf

Liz Hurley – Hiverton Sisters

A New Life for Ariana Byrne – coverA New Life for Ariana ByrneCornish Dreams at Cockleshell Cottage – coverCornish Dreams at Cockleshell CottageHigh Heels in the Highlands – coverHigh Heels in the HighlandsFrom Ireland with Love – coverFrom Ireland with LoveAster Victorious – coverAster Victorious

Liz Hurley – Cornish Walks

Top Walks in West Cornwall – coverTop Walks in West CornwallCycling in Cornwall – coverCycling in CornwallWalking with Saints and Tinners – coverWalking with Saints and Tinners

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