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Salt Publishing | Est. 1999
Independent & family-run.
Fiction (crime, historical, horror, literary), non-fiction, poetry & short stories.
Beautiful books you won’t forget.
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Christmas begins with a beautiful book 🎄

Four unforgettable Salt reads — fiction, poetry, short stories and dark magic — all available now at your local bookshop.

Support bookshops. Christmas books you won’t forget.

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December 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Mike Farren reviews Wonder by Chris Emery in the latest issue of The High Window
The High Window Reviews: Winter 2025
***** POETRY Steve Ely: Eely • Dean Browne: After Party • Daniel Huws: Debris • Sarah Ghazal Ali: Theophanies • Chris Emery: Wonder •  Sarah James: Darling Blue • Tim Dwyer: Accepting the Call  • R…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I only know Anthony Jeselnik from one stand-up clip (the 'cunt' joke) but this is one of the most interesting book round-ups I have seen for a while.
Anthony Jeselnik’s Top Ten Books of 2025
YouTube video by Anthony Jeselnik
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December 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"the most fun I’ve had with a story all year" - huge thanks to @kieranstories.bsky.social for choosing my story 'Ghost Walks' and Best British Short Stories 2025 among his best reads of the year @saltpublishing.com
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I’ve read some great stuff this year. These books are my ten favourites from the second half of 2025. I always like seeing these lists. I hope you like this one! Relaxing weekend, all. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/o...
On the best books I read in the second half of 2025
Short post about my favourite reads from the second half of 2025.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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HEY PPL: Give your favorite readers the gift of books this season BUT please, please, please BUY FROM INDIE BOOKSTORES & INDIE AUTHORS
(just say HELL NO to amazondotcom,ffs!)
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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 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Best British Short Stories 2025 is here – the fifteenth volume of our landmark annual anthology. Edited by Nicholas Royle, it gathers the most exciting short fiction of 2024 from major names and brilliant new voices.
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.

#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying
A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying
I waited for the carriage to roll over and burst into flames, but the sound of a child brought me out of my trance, and showed me how important it is to look outwards in a crisis
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December 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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‘A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying’ Anna Woodford in today's Guardian
A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying
I waited for the carriage to roll over and burst into flames, but the sound of a child brought me out of my trance, and showed me how important it is to look outwards in a crisis
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December 10, 2025 at 7:57 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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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
👉 www.saltpublishing.com
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.

Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...

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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