Tuesday 12 July 2022
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Tickets available until 12 July 2022 4:00 PM
This event commences instore and online via zoom at 6.30pm (AEST)
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Instore guests - 6.00 for a 6.30pm start. With booking an instore ticket your name will be on the door at Avid Reader.
Bar open at 5.30pm - drinks available for purchase prior to and after the event.
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A lush and twisted fairytale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from A. G. Slatter, Brisbane-based multi-award-winning short story writer and author.
Trent Jamieson is in-conversation with A. G. Slatter discussing her latest novel The Path of Thorns.
Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke. However, she becomes fond of her charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan – and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.
From the author of All the Murmuring Bones, dark magic, retribution and twisted family secrets combine to weave a bewitching and beautifully written gothic fairy tale.
Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced.
‘A delightfully sinister fairy tale full of dark rituals, reluctant romance, and revenge served bitterly cold, The Path of Thorns is a modern classic.’ Hannah Whitten, The New York Times bestselling author of For The Wolf
‘Slatter’s dark faatasies have a bright, burning core of understanding and insight.’ M.R Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
A. G. SLATTER has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, an Australian Shadows Award and six Aurealis Awards for her short stories.
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 teaches creative writing and lives in Brisbane.
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