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Salt Publishing | Est. 1999
Independent & family-run.
Fiction, poetry, horror, history, crime – beautiful books you won’t forget.
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Coming September 2026 – Louis de Bernières’ Norfolk diaries: Smelling of Rooks.
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026
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December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
Issues — Bad Lilies
Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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On a year in reading, featuring @cbeditions.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social

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On a year in reading
Like in my previous post, On a year in Writing, where I didn’t feel I have written much this year in this post, On a year in Reading, likewise I don’t feel I have read much.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026
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December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Coming September 2026 – Louis de Bernières’ Norfolk diaries: Smelling of Rooks.
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that Lous de Bernières is join the Salt list in 2026 with his Norfolk diaries.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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2020 #31
A candidate for best novel I read in 2020 and definitely the best novel set around the great Miner's Strike of 1984-85 in the UK. A superb debut from one of my favourite British writers and I've put the blurb in the alt text. Get it at
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The Litten Path, by James Clarke. March, 1984. Britain's miners face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them, violent forces will be unleashed and the country will change forever.The Newmans have enough on their plate without a strike to contend with. Arthur hates working at the pit, his unhappy wife, Shell, doesn't know what she wants and their lonely son Lawrence has no say in anything - especially a late night mission to Threndle House, home of disgraced politician Clive Swarsby and his two mysterious children. When Lawrence and Arthur take an abandoned rug from the house, their family is plunged into crisis. Then there is the small matter of the pickets . . .Taking in controversial events such as the Battle of Orgreave, The Litten Path is an exceptional debut set against the sunless landscapes of a country now lost in time. Grimly honest and tender, tough and lyrical, comic and painful, it is about class friction, the clash between the urban and the rural. It is about what happens when a decision is made, when one cannot turn back.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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We've updated the Salt website – new layouts for the author directory, updated pages for careers, design and typography, events, book and magazine submissions, pretty much the entire site revised in some degree.
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Beautiful Books You Won’t Forget | Salt Publishing
Welcome to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishing houses. Since our founding in 1999, we have published some of the world’s foremost writers.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Thank you to everyone at Salt Books for making it possible to get Maria’s story out into the world. Her love of boooks was inspired by her father, who ran a family publishing house. I am deeply touched that Salt is publishing her story.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A poem for Advent and Cyber Monday, from Chris Emery's latest collection #WONDER, out now from Salt
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Christmas is coming
A single poem to mark the start of the Christmas season from Chris Emery’s fifth collection, Wonder.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I’m lucky — I’ve met Maria because I got to read an early draft of this remarkable novel. I can’t wait for you to meet her next year!
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Discover the story behind The Maternal Element: Kate Nicholls on Maria Mendeleeva, motherhood, and the powerful gaps in our histories. A beautiful read. ✨
Why I Wrote ‘The Maternal Element’
by Kate Nicholls Four years ago, I had never heard of Maria Mendeleeva, Dmitry Mendeleev’s mother. Wanting to bring a class on the Periodic Table to life, I searched for stories about Mendeleev’s chil...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Kate Nicholls’ extraordinary fictionalisation of Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva – forthcoming from Salt
Salt signs 'evocative' debut novel
The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls is 'a richly imagined portrait of motherhood and female strength' set in 19th-century Siberia
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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We’ve launched a new page on Salt’s design and typography — the craft behind every book we make. From bus timetables to Cromer, it’s been quite a journey in type.

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Design and Typography at Salt
Chris Hamilton-EmeryDesigner, Salt Design as the Soul of Salt Design has always been at the heart of Salt’s publishing identity. From the outset, we’ve always understood typography to be both form and...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Salt acquires Kate Nicholls' 'evocative' debut novel
Salt acquires Kate Nicholls' 'evocative' debut novel
Salt has acquired Kate Nicholls’ debut novel, The Maternal Element.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Thanks to Amanda Loose for featuring Wonder in the latest issue of North Norfolk Living.
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Oh my bloody goodness- what a satisfying read. Zoë Apostolides has a glorious voice. Huge thanks to @saltpublishing.com - if one of you hadn’t followed me here, I’d never have bought this. #Superb #Eerie #NewFiction
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Happy publication day to our author Zoë Apostolides 🎉 Her debut novel THE HOMECOMING is a quietly disturbing part mystery, part ghost story, about isolation, memory, spirits and secrets, intergenerational friendship and motherhood. Published by @saltpublishing.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Sasha Butler's THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT has been selected for Cosmopolitan's Book Awards 2025! 🥳🥂🍾
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I’ve been lucky enough to read Wash. Erica is a magnificent writer. It’s brave, writing glorious writing.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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‘Skin Job’ – a new story by Catherine Eisner in House Magazine.
Skin Job
by Catherine Eisner A Self-Narrative Assignment A high risk of re-offending,’ an incisive voice was heard to quote from my case file.The finality of these words was thought to prepare me for the inqui...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Big news at Salty Towers.
Salt Publishing snaps up Wagner’s 'anti-biography' of engineer Washington Roebling
Salt Publishing has acquired Wash, a “richly imagined and intimate” “anti-biography” by the award-winning author and critic Erica Wagner.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Huge congratulations to Chris Emery on the publication of his fifth collection of poetry, ‘Wonder’! 🥳🍾🥂🎉

‘Wonder’ is available from all good bookstores today!
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Salt buys Erica Wagner novel

Wash 'is a gripping character study, a historical novel that explores masculinity and sexuality, ambition and damage in breathtaking, immersive prose' by exploring the life of Washington Roebling, the engineer behind New York's Brooklyn Bridge
Salt buys Erica Wagner novel
Wash 'is a gripping character study, a historical novel that explores masculinity and sexuality, ambition and damage in breathtaking, immersive prose' by exploring the life of Washington Roebling, the...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Thank you to everyone who has donated to Salt over the past few weeks – every penny has now been passed on to our wonderful authors and contributors. We'll be bringing more news about our 2026 list soon – and we'll begin commissioning our 2027 list in the new year.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM