Bloody Business and Amateur sleuths with Natalie Jayne Clark & Chris Barkley

Whisky tastings, ceilidhs, literary skulduggery and revenge! Discussing the debut thrillers of local talents Natalie Jayne Clarke (The Malt Whisky Murders) & Chris Barkley (The Man on the Endless Stair) will dive into the world of writing thrilling murder mysteries set in Scotland.

Natalie Jayne Clark is a neurodivergent writer, editor and producer based in Perth. Natalie writes for SNACK Magazine, is the Assistant Producer for StAnza Poetry Festival, and works across the arts and culture industry in a variety of roles. She first became interested in whisky as a student in Stirling, and has since passed her Whisky Ambassador tests with full marks and become an accredited Whisky Ambassador. She has visited several distilleries across Scotland and Ireland, and hopes to one day visit more distilleries across the world.

Chris Barkley was appointed Writer in Residence by the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He won the Oxford University Kellogg Writing Competition in 2021, as well as the Bedford International Writing Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize and has had prose published in TSS, National Flash Fiction, Darling Axe, and the Writers of the Future 35th anthology. He lives in Edinburgh.