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Praise for A.G. Slatter: ""Angela plays by her own rules. She's fantastic"" Hilarie Burton-Morgan, actress and author of Grimoire Girl “Deftly weaving the threads of her previous novels into a tapestry all its own, A.G. Slatter’s The Crimson Road is part fantasy adventure, part dark fairytale, and all sharp teeth as the latest of her bright, fierce heroines is forced to grapple with the bonds of family, legacy, and love in order to save her world. I eagerly await the next book in the Sourdough universe!” Genevieve Gornichec, author of The Witch’s Heart and The Weaver and the Witch Queen “A rich and decadent world where mystery waits around every bend, and darkness lurks just beneath the surface. The Crimson Road has the feel of being equal parts fairy tale and hidden history. Dark family secrets abound in a perfect blend of Gothic and fairy-tale fiction – Slatter knocks it out of the park once again.” A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling and Hooked “Angela Slatter continues to tantalise us with a further glimpse into her intricate and thrilling world of interconnected tales. As well as the sinister Leech Lords, The Crimson Road gives us Violet: a scarred but determined woman fighting against a destiny that men have assigned her. There’s plenty of adventure here to keep a reader gripped as they follow Violet into the darkness – both the one that lurks in the world, and the darkness inside herself. Another beguiling tale from an author at the height of her powers.” Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong and Song of the Huntress “A.G. Slatter has a unique gift for balancing light and dark in the fairy-tale gothic. The result is a deliciously sinister fantasy world, with vampire-slaying heroines to rival Buffy, witches who pay a bloody price for their magic, and heiresses who uncover secrets lurking in their family trees – but it’s also a world so full of unexpected cosiness, warmth and delight that every Halloween lover will want to curl up in it. The Crimson Road brings together all this and more, like a ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation of Slatter’s startlingly original work to date, taking the reader on an epic journey filled with danger into the heart of the Leech-infested Darklands. Utterly irresistible.” Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces and Where the Dead Wait “The Crimson Road delivers heart-pounding gothic adventure, a glittering world of mystery and menace, and a formidable heroine.” Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia “I adored returning to Angela Slatter’s Sourdough world once more in The Crimson Road. Violet’s journey to the mysterious Darklands revealed some delightfully familiar faces, as well as some truly frightening new ones. Angela Slatter spins a tale filled with adventure, danger, loyalty, love and family secrets – readers will love sinking their teeth into this one!” Kell Woods, author of After the Forest and Upon a Starlit Tide

Praise for A Forest, Darkly: A Forest, Darkly is a lush, blood-wet bramble of a fairytale promising we are each of us so much more than the worst thing we've ever done. Given the wicked elegance with which A.G. Slatter traverses the glens of folklore, one can't help wonder if she might just be a changeling, herself. -GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot and Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart No one does gothic fairytales like A.G. Slatter. A Forest, Darkly is an atmospheric, slow-burn dream of a novel. Its protagonist, the resilient Mehrab, is a breath of fresh air, a glimmer of light in the dark forest. With enough life experience to justify her solitude, but with the courage to let others in despite it all, her narration makes for a book that is not only bleak and witty in equal turns, but strangely comforting too, and ultimately hopeful: It is never too late to start your next adventure. -Genevieve Gornichec, author of The Witch's Heart and The Weaver and the Witch Queen A Forest, Darkly is a grimly enchanting tale, both inspired and ancient, spun of whispered things. At its heart beats Mehrab, a refreshingly perimenopausal main character, full of fabled magic yet wildly relatable. With a voice that is dark and mellifluous, the story drips from Slatter's honeyed fingertips onto the page, guiding you forward like stones on a path. At turns mysterious, mythical, and menacing, the world she builds is one you'll long to visit again and again. This book is a tall mug of something hot and mulled beside a roaring fire. Be warned-you can drink your fill, but you'll only crave more. -Ava Morgyn, USA Today bestselling author of The Bane Witch Every book in A.G. Slatter's Sourdough world is a delicious, creepy-cosy gift, and A Forest, Darkly is her best yet. You'll fall in love with Mehrab, the solitary forest dweller, even if you find - as I did! -you end up envying her a little too: can you say cottagegore #goals? Slatter tells her witchy, wood-set story with wit and charm, and plenty of gruesome gothic chills, while delivering sneaky wisdom about ageing, obligation, and how to hold your head up high. -Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces and Where the Dead Wait Witches in trouble oft find their way to dark forests - and this is one of the darkest.' With these words, A Forest Darkly gripped me with green, leafy hands, pulling me from the safety of the path and into the great, dark forest that is the stage of Angela Slatter's latest tale... A tale of found family, fairy tale and folklore, and the enduring power of women, A Forest Darkly is earthy, strange and utterly enthralling. I was completely lost in it, in the best of ways. -Kell Woods, author of After the Forest and Upon a Starlit Tide Hatchet-sharp, as relentless as the slicing of roots through bedrock, A Forest, Darkly is by turns tender, terrifying, and enthralling. Slatter's lyrical prose only heightens the pain of being forced to dig out the secrets of the past, like a poisoned sliver from a long-closed wound. -Premee Mohamed, author of The Butcher of the Forest A strange and beautiful novel woven with magic, folklore, faery and humanity. A superbly imagined world, teetering on the familiar and the deep unknown - The Handmaid's Tale by way of the Brothers Grimm! A rich, dark, rewarding read - Mehrab is a character to remember! -Kate Griffin, author of Fyneshade A gorgeous fairytale of a novel. Creeping, comforting and cunning in turn, A Forest Darkly lures you into a luscious world of folklore and nature. Slatter spins a story that deserves to be told around a fire, passed on like the best of folktales. -Jodie Matthews, author of Meet Me at the Surface Angela Slatter's A Forest, Darkly is a haunting novel that weaves itself around your heart. Despite the weight of her years and the well-earned paranoia of a witch carving a life for herself in a dark and unpredictable forest, Mehrab does her best by the local villagers and her unexpected young ward. Readers will be drawn in by the compelling heart of the novel - the fight for genuine connection in an unfair world. - Nicole Jarvis, author of The Lights of Prague and A Spell for Change

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A.G. Slatter has won a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, three Australian Shadows Awards, eight Aurealis Awards and a Premier Ignotus. 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 both the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel in 2022; and The Briar Book of the Dead has been shortlisted for both the Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards for 2024. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and has been a judge for the World Fantasy and Aurealis Awards. 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 with a superannuated beagle and a TBR pile which will likely be the death of her. Find her on her website angelaslatter.com and on social media @angelaslatter

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