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A.G. Slatter Angela has won a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, three Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards. Most recently, All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the Year and the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award; The Path of Thorns won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the 2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. Angela’s short stories have appeared in many Best Of anthologies, and her work has been translated into many languages. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
"""Angela plays by her own rules. She's fantastic"" Hilaire Burton-Morgan, actress and author of Grimoire Girl, on A.G. Slatter's writing Praise for The Briar Book of the Dead “Slatter nestles stories within stories, immersing readers in a richly imagined world, and leading them on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns. This is an expertly woven tale of intrigue, magic, family, and righting old wrongs.” A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling “Slatter writes witches like none other, and her newest is a darkling feast, jewelled and blood-stained, rich with secrets and seething with unbearable power.” Cassandra Khaw, author of The Salt Grows Heavy “Dark, witchy, and downright delicious, The Briar Book of The Dead is the perfect read for shorter days and longer nights.” Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces “Angela Slatter hits it out of the park again. With gorgeous prose and a heart-breaking story about family, magic, and the weight of the past, this is a darkly fantastic masterpiece that shouldn’t be missed.” Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens “Lush prose, complex, compelling characters, and an examination of the tangled webs of both the past and family roots left me flipping pages long into the night. What Slatter has crafted with The Briar Book of the Dead is nothing short of an immersive, dark magic.” Kristi DeMeester, author of Such a Pretty Smile “This is a ghost story like no other, weaving past, present and future, life, death and the in-between. Angela Slatter is at her very best in this masterful blend of folkloric storytelling, family conflict and dark horror. That the shadowy pathway is illuminated here and there by a flickering candle of kindness makes The Briar Book of the Dead even stronger.” Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series “The Briar Book of the Dead is entirely enchanting. Angela Slatter has magic in her pen instead of ink.” A.J. Elwood, author of The Other Lives of Miss Emily White “Angela Slatter’s The Briar Book of the Dead will, with its wonderfully clear yet enchanted prose, cast a spell on readers.” Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell, “A legend-netted fable of enchantment, The Briar Book of the Dead is decadent with jealousies, voluptuous with duty, upholstered with love and death. Slatter's world is warm and vicious, soft with forgotten crimes and protected by rites and duties. But while its boundaries are marked with ink and blood and fire, a cold wind curls in from beyond…” Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway"
