Belgium & Slovenia: Add Cyanide to Taste
A sinister cook, a cursed cake, and a casual dinner between neighbours that goes murderously wrong. This collection of culinary mysteries ascends the jagged culinary heights you’ve hungered to explore but could never find on a map: a family business that depends on a cursed recipe, a remote mountain village harbouring a suspicious cook, a house ghost with a peculiar appetite. As the characters swoon over every unforgettable mouthful and sometimes bite off more than they can chew, you’ll find yourself asking: What would I be willing to pay for the meal of a lifetime? Fourteen short stories and thirteen recipes will chill, thrill and entertain. They range from thrillers and mysteries to ghost stories. If feasting on culinary noir leaves you hungry, extend your pleasure by preparing the dishes featured in the stories. Most recipes are vegetarian. All recipes provided are cyanide-free.
Author:
Karmen Špiljak is an award-winning author of suspense, horror and speculative fiction, a developmental editor and an Author Accelerator certified book coach for fiction. Her thriller, 'No Such Thing as Goodbye', was shortlisted and received an honourable mention on 'The Black Spring Crime Fiction Prize 2020'. Her short story collection, 'Add Cyanide to Taste', won the 2022 IndieReader Discovery Award for best short stories. In 2023, LeVar Burton Reads licensed her short story, 'Three Roses', for their podcast. Her collection, 'Pass the Cyanide', won 'The 2023 Wishing Shelf Awards Bronze'. She currently lives in Belgrade with her husband, two cats and an unknown number of fictional characters.Performer (Book Reading)
She comes from a rural farming community where life had a very different focus than what she has lived iun the past 20 years as an immigrant to Hong Kong.
In her studio in Sham Shui Po, Smith works with paper, fabric and watercolour. Inspired by her love and occasional despair of the city she lives and works in, the scenes outside her studio window push her art in directions that are at turns comforting and alarming. Smith seeks to express in simple forms.
As time passes and the city rapidly changes further Smith waits with her scissors and brushes to see what will emerge slicing away, leaving room for light and movement. In response to the lack of face to face classes during the time of Covid, the HK Mail Art Club came into being - a weekly mail out of DIY art kits to do at home. The kits invite you to assemble, colour and construct paper based figures, while learning about the natural world.
When not at the studio, I am podcasting, storytelling and organising Hong Kong Stories, directiing the Hong kong Spoken Word Festival, or taking miniaturised versions of real people on adventures with Tiny Trekkers Travel Agency.
Venue:
The Siberian29 Des Voeux Rd, Central
