The Man on the Endless Stair by Chris Barkley
18th – 24th August
Genre: Scottish Crime / Historical | Mystery
Pages: 283
Publisher: Birlinn Books | Polygon
Blurb
When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protégé, vouching for him in the rarefied literary scene in the 1950s. But lately, Malcolm has not been himself. Consumed by his work, he cuts an increasingly isolated figure and has become convinced that something terrible will befall him. He summons his loved ones to his secluded island in the Hebrides and – to everyone’s surprise – entrusts Euan with the task of completing his masterpiece.
Malcolm’s suspicions soon prove well-founded; he is discovered brutally murdered in his study, and his invaluable unfinished novel has vanished. Cut off from the mainland, with the killer on the loose and the island’s inhabitants circling, Euan feels both his mentor’s legacy and his only chance at greatness slipping away. He must venture deep into Malcolm’s labyrinthine mansion to find the manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands.
But what he doesn’t yet know is that the closer he comes to solving the mystery, the tighter he will bind himself to a fate sealed in time . . .
Bloody Scotland Panel
Chris will be appearing at Bloody Scotland this year. You can book your tickets at BloodyScotland.com
Dark Islands: Morag Pringle, Ronnie Turner, Chris Barkley Saturday 13th September / 11.30AM-12.30PM / TRINITY CHURCH / £9/£8
Grab a boat, hire a helicopter, or swim if you must, but find a way to get off the dark and mysterious Scottish islands that are the setting for these three scintillating crime novels. In The Final Truth, the third in Morag Pringle’s Rachel McKenzie series, a body found in a cemetery leads Rachel to the Outer Hebrides. Two sisters flee to an unnamed island sparking a horrifying series of events in Ronnie Turner’s bewitching debut Small Fires. A labyrinthine mansion on a secluded Hebridean isle is the moody setting for Chris Barkley’s first novel The Man on the Endless Stair. This event will be chaired by author Ed James.
Author bio
Chris Barkley was appointed Writer in Residence by the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He has won the Oxford University Kellogg Writing Competition, 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. The Man on the Endless Stair is his first novel. He lives in Edinburgh.
Schedule
| 18th Aug | @theliteraturelagoon | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 18th Aug | @xrosieandthornx | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 19th Aug | @booksbybindu | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 19th Aug | @bek.is.reading | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 20th Aug | @Rozannereviews | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 21st Aug | @louise_bookmarksandstages | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 21st Aug | @pugwash18 | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 22nd Aug | @Sue.wallace1974 | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 22nd Aug | @lowrihere_books | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 23rd Aug | @hales2385 | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 23rd Aug | @happymotherbooker | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
| 24th Aug | @book_a_holic_17 | 🇬🇧 UK – Digital Book |
Buy Links
🇬🇧 Amazon UK: The Man on the Endless Stair – Amazon UK
🇺🇸 Amazon US: The Man on the Endless Stair – Amazon US
📖 Goodreads: The Man on the Endless Stair – Goodreads
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