Alice Slater

Author

Alice Slater is a British novelist whose debut was one of the most talked-about literary thrillers of 2023. She lives in London and worked in an independent bookshop — an experience that directly inspired her first novel. She has been published in Granta and was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. Death of a... Bookseller follows two women who work in the same London bookshop: Laura, an Instagram-loving, true-crime-obsessed bookseller who becomes fixated on her mysterious colleague Roach, and Roach, a reclusive outsider who harbours dark secrets. The novel was a darkly comic exploration of obsession, loneliness, and the dangerous gap between how we present ourselves and who we really are. It was longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a sharp, unsettling debut about the dark side of obsession — a novel that takes the cosy world of bookshops and fills it with menace, dark humour, and characters you can't look away from. Read more Show less