In Conversation With Jodie Matthews

On Friday 4th July 2025 we were excited to welcome Jodie Matthews to Temple Up Top, to chat about her debut gothic horror novel Meet Me at the Surface, which is set in a Cornish village.

In Conversation with Jodie Matthews Event

Set in the modern day, Meet Me At The Surface tells the story of Merryn returning to the Cornish village where she grew up for a memorial service. But something feels wrong in her childhood home, her family are keeping secrets, and the villagers are out hunting on the moors at night, but for what?

This is a story of love, loss, the place we call home, and what it is to belong, with something otherworldly ever present in the periphery.

In this delightfully intimate and relaxed evening, our very own folklore fanatic Reb Fell treated the audience to a fascinating in-depth conversation with Jodie about this atmospheric and haunting story.

Reb would recommend Meet Me at the Surface to fans of Gorse, horror and folklore.

Jodie Matthews Bookstack
In Conversation with Jodie Matthews Event

Meet Me at the Surface:

‘This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I’ve read in years’ S. J. WATSON

‘A strange and beautiful novel’ OBSERVER

‘A wild and darkly exuberant ride of a novel’ JEFF VANDERMEER

“Everything that comes from the ground must go back down… eventually.”

Available in store from Spencer Thorn or online via our shopfront on Bookshop.org

Paperback £9.99 | Hardback £16.99