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Salt Books
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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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Huge thanks.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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2020 #46
The debut novel from another real favourite of mine, a Black Country writer who brings us dark tales from that oft ignored part of the English Midlands. Also debuts the author's distinct and unsettling narrative style, the blurb gives a hint.
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The Black Country, by Kerry Hadley-Price. Plot Maddie and Harry: she's an estate agent, he's a teacher. They'll say they live in the Black Country. They'll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they'd killed someone. Thought they had. And as they search for a truth, they'll tell us their secrets, their mistakes. And we'll judge them. We'll judge Harry's fling with a schoolgirl and Maddie's previous life. We'll judge the nature of love and violence, good and evil. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it's darker than it should be.
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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We don't yet have a release date for the US.
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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We're proud to be publishing you!
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Thank you.
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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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