The Sourdough Compendium

A dazzling masterpiece of a tapestry novel, where each dark fairy tale twist weaves together into something much greater.
-Caitlin Rozakis, New York Times bestselling author of Dreadful

A collection of individually intriguing stories that built into an intricate, beautiful and brooding world Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time

A whopping 688 pages of short stories compiled from three previous mosaic collections - Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and The Tallow- Wife and Other Tales - all based in Slatter’s Sourdough universe. For those of us lucky enough to have been immersed in this darkly fantastic world for fifteen years or so, there will be no surprises; for newcomers oriented only since the recent novels, it will be a thrill to discover more of the mythology. Both will be delighted.
-Paula Guran, Locus Magazine

Slatter displays a rare gift for evocative and poetic prose Publishers Weekly, starred review

Slatter’s work is excellent, and eminently readable. The world that her creations live within is excellently depicted, and the characters easy to relate to. It’s easy to see how she’s managed to make such an impact on the genre and garnered a British Fantasy Award and numerous other nominations.
-British Fantasy Society

[Angela Slatter] has carved a niche as one of the best writers of short stories of dark fantasy… Slatter combines darkness, passion and beauty to leave the reader at turns amused, confronted and horrified.
-The Australian

A collection of stories in which each individual work is a perfectly crafted gem… As of today’s date, I rate The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings the best book I have read so far this year.
-Black Static

Wonderful prose and… enticing narrative style, where words are musical notes and the stories are symphonies.
-Black Gate

Like Aickman, her sense of the fantastic serves to show us the weird world we hold within our own psyches.
-Rick Kleffel, American Public Radio Books

Slatter’s fairy tales have a ravishing quality which leaves the reader totally spellbound by their elegance and imaginative power.
-Bookgeeks

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.

Her novel 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. The Briar Book of the Dead has been shortlisted for both the Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards for 2024.

She holds a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and has served as a judge for the World Fantasy and Aurealis Awards. Angela’s short stories have appeared in numerous Best Of anthologies, and her work has been translated into many languages. She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with a superannuated beagle and a towering stack of books that will likely be the death of her.

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