ART & LIT ELIZA CLARK BOOK LAUNCH @ BISCUIT FACTORY

Words: Françoise Harvey

Novelist and self-titled Fellow of the Royal Society of Bitchrature, Eliza Clark returns to Newcastle on Thursday 6th July to launch her new book Penance at the Biscuit Factory. Newcastle-born Clark has just been anointed one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and her cult-hit debut novel Boy Parts has been dramatised for stage in London. Her new novel Penance more than promises to keep her star rising.

The Biscuit Factory organisers describe Penance as “already one of our favourite books of the year… an utterly chilling, compulsive story”. And it is a cracker – an intricate untrue crime narrative of murder, murky websites and teenage girls.

Clark is in conversation with Matt Wesolowski, the mentor she found through New Writing North’s Young Writers programme, which she credits with opening the doors to her writing career. “I’m really excited,” she told told me. “[Because of lockdown] I didn’t get to do a Newcastle event for Boy Parts; I’m looking forward to doing a home gig. It’ll be really nice to talk to Matt, that’ll be a lovely full-circle moment.”

Find out more about Penance as well as Eliza Clark’s writing process in our My Writing Life with Fran Harvey podcast, available on Spotify. Eliza Clark launches Penance at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle on Thursday 6th July. www.elizaclarkauthor.com