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.
PRAISE FOR ALL THE MURMURING BONES
A rich and satisfying novel about a young woman, born to be the
last hope of a once powerful family, who resists an arranged
marriage and won’t stop at murder or magic to survive in a world of
abusive men and dangerous, supernatural creatures. Shifting between
scenes of wonder and horror, a complex plot is gradually revealed,
as well paced and gripping as a thriller. - The Guardian
"Stunning gothic adventure...Anyone who likes gutsy heroines,
beautiful language, and well-wrought worlds won’t want to miss
this." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"This is a magnificently written, smashingly good read...Slatter’s
prose is as lustrous as jet beads against black silk. Readers will
savor every word."- Locus Magazine
‘A. G. Slatter is a born storyteller. Her work is as beautiful and
dangerous as the best fairy tales and All the Murmuring Bones is
entirely enchanting. A magical read!’ Alison Littlewood, author of
A Cold Season
‘A beautiful gothic monstrosity (monstrosity being a good
thing), one of those rare books you don’t just want to read but
want to live inside of.’ Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
‘Like J.R.R. Tolkien, Slatter’s taken her personal invented mythos
and crafted a world around it that is at once familiar and deeply
strange. Lush and chilling, eerie and exquisite, brutal and
elegant… I defy anyone to stop turning pages until they’ve come to
the end.’ Ellen Kushner, author of The Privilege of the Sword
‘Harrowing and beautiful, this is the grim, fairy-tale gothic
you’ve been waiting for. All the Murmuring Bones is Slatter at her
darkest—and finest. Don’t miss it!' Christopher Golden, New York
Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands
‘All the Murmuring Bones is fairy-tale gothic at its finest and
then some. Luscious, richly infused with Slatter’s gift for
creating place; this is a world that invites travel along all of
its dark roads and secret paths. Long after you’re done with the
book, you’ll sit there drenched still in its magic, wondering how
you might find your way back.’ Cassandra Khaw, author of Hammers on
Bone
‘A story as gorgeously gothic as its title. This is a novel of
blood and bones, of salt and silver, of an absolutely haunting
richness. I was compelled from the very beginning and held rapt to
the end.’ Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians
‘Like the sea at its heart, Slatter’s haunting story is treacherous
and lovely in all its dark depths.’ Heather Kassner, author of The
Bone Garden
‘Two uncanny houses, Hob’s Hallow and Blackwater, bookend Angela
Slatter’s new novel like grim sentinels. Whether they are cursed or
enchanted, majestic or moldering, refuge or prison, only reading to
the end will tell. Meanwhile, the landscape stretching between
these gothic structures abounds with corpsewights, kelpies, ghosts,
rusalki, werewolves, clockwork mechanicals, and—most
alarmingly—actors. And across this treacherous terrain walks Miren
O’Malley, scarred, furious, and growing in power. All the Murmuring
Bones is brutal and beautiful throughout, with moments of
tenderness hard-won and harder-kept, and, pervading all, an
atmosphere of inescapable threat like the taste of salt wind and
the sound of silver bells ringing in the deep.’ C. S. E. Cooney,
World Fantasy Award-winning author of Bone Swans: Stories
"The [gothic] fantasy worlds of Angela Slatter are among the
fullest, most vividly realised of our time. The primal ore of folk
and fairytale runs glittering through the dark layers of their
history and geology, and Slatter mines them for all they're worth.
She brings them to the light cut and polished in ways that will
make you gasp. In the furnace of her imagination what she produces
is tantamount to a sword from out the stone. Her prose is molten
metal. Hail the Once and Future Queen!" Neil Snowdon
‘Gorgeous, atmospheric gothic fantasy’ - Buzzfeed
‘Twists and turns and weaves Grimm-like fairytales into a dark tale
that gets darker the further you read’ 5* - She Reeds By The Sea
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