Hello. Author bio: Alice Slater spent six years working as a bookseller for Waterstones. Her debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and won Debut Crime Book of the Year at Capital Crime’s Fingerprint Awards 2024. It was also shortlisted for CrimeFest’s Specsavers Best Debut Crime Novel 2023 and longlisted…
(Death of a Bookseller)
Excellent news! My debut novel Death of a Bookseller is due for publication in 2023 with Hodder! Read the Bookseller article here. Check out a delightful profile in the Waltham Forest Echo here. Synopsis of Death of a Bookseller: “Roach, a bookseller and a loner, is content to spend her days hoarding true crime proofs,…
#CookJan in 2021
So here’s the thing. January sucks and so do January diets. Big Diet is a 192.2 billion dollar industry, projected to reach $295.3 billion by 20271, and it’s waiting in the wings to cash in on your Christmas fun and make you feel like human garbage. I’m not going to sugar-coat it: this year, I…
#CookJan
Original #cookjan blog post published on smokintofu.com in December 2017: Bookshops in December are magical: Christmas decorations in jewel colours, handsome little stocking fillers, and fat piles of bestsellers ready to be wrapped and placed under sparkling Christmas trees. Cookbooks boom in December. This year, the bestsellers included Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles (a beautiful love…
Outsiders: an anthology
I’m editing an anthology of short fiction called Outsiders for 3 of Cups Press due in September 2020. Available to preorder here. About Outsiders: I’m interested in community: creating community and rejecting it, craving it and disrupting it, fearing it and protecting it. But community can’t exist without outsiders: if we’re us, then who are…
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“It’s said that if you wash your face with water from the Mississippi, you’re destined to return to New Orleans. I rinsed my face in the bathroom sink and we took the bus across town with our bags on our backs.” From A Recipe For Vegetarian Gumbo, first published in Grub #2 (Synchronise Witches Press)….
(fiction)
Novels Let the Bad Times Roll (Hodder, 2025) Author endorsements: “A veritable feast of secret passions and hidden betrayals. Alice Slater is the queen of the dark and delectable thriller.” Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow “Alice Slater serves up dark and twisty thrillers like a smoked Sazerac: intoxicating, sharp-edged and burning with obsession.” Kirsty…
What Page Are You On?
I co-host bookish podcast What Page Are You On? with my pal Bethany Rutter. You can listen to us on iTunes, Spotify or wherever else you might find podcasts. In 2018, we were delighted to be Podcast of the Week at Metro.co.uk (and you can read an interview with Bethany about it here).
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