Dale Hurst
Dale Hurst is an English novelist, restaurant critic, editor, and presenter. Born and bred in Bournemouth, he studied Multimedia Journalism at Solent University in Southampton. During that time, he ran a successful food blog Expensive Tastes, interviewed MPs, and wrote scripts for BBC Radio Northampton.
However, from 2008, he began work on The Berylford Scandals. A series of neo-Regency/Victorian mystery melodramas, incorporating his loves of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and other writers of the period. In 2018, he published the first instalment, Lust & Liberty, following with Sin & Secrecy in 2020. Now taking a self-professed “break from Berylford”, Dale is now working on his third novel. The World War II thriller You Can Hear Chopin from the Attic.
Until 2021, when not writing books, Dale was editor and senior journalist at HQB News, an online multimedia positive news platform based in Bournemouth. In addition to contributing articles, he presented various video interviews, as well as their in-house podcast Bournemouth Backchat.
He now operates as a freelance journalist, and will host the brand-new podcast Dale Hurst’s Writing Show starting later in 2021.