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Changing the weather: how Salt is shifting its list for a new era

Changing the weather: how Salt is shifting its ...

For the past two years, we’ve been quietly rearranging the furniture at Salt. Not the fun kind of rearranging, where you move a lamp and suddenly feel like you live...

Changing the weather: how Salt is shifting its ...

For the past two years, we’ve been quietly rearranging the furniture at Salt. Not the fun kind of rearranging, where you move a lamp and suddenly feel like you live...

Louis de Bernières joins Salt with ‘Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps’

Louis de Bernières joins Salt with ‘Smelling of...

Salt Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps, a new collection drawn from...

Louis de Bernières joins Salt with ‘Smelling of...

Salt Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps, a new collection drawn from...

Why I wrote ‘The Maternal Element’

Why I wrote ‘The Maternal Element’

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...

Why I wrote ‘The Maternal Element’

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...

Skin job

Skin job

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...

Skin job

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...

Building bridges: Erica Wagner’s ‘Wash’

Building bridges: Erica Wagner’s ‘Wash’

There are books that do more than tell a story – they build a world from the inside out. Erica Wagner’s Wash is one of them. A richly imagined and intimate...

Building bridges: Erica Wagner’s ‘Wash’

There are books that do more than tell a story – they build a world from the inside out. Erica Wagner’s Wash is one of them. A richly imagined and intimate...

Jude Cook discusses his new novel, ‘Time Being’

Jude Cook discusses his new novel, ‘Time Being’

With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell...

Jude Cook discusses his new novel, ‘Time Being’

With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell...

So you want to work in publishing?

So you want to work in publishing?

Publishing might seem like a closed world, but behind every book lies a web of people, skills and ideas. Here, Salt’s co-founder Chris Hamilton-Emery talks about how he found his...

So you want to work in publishing?

Publishing might seem like a closed world, but behind every book lies a web of people, skills and ideas. Here, Salt’s co-founder Chris Hamilton-Emery talks about how he found his...

Wormsong and Descant

Wormsong and Descant

I awoke late and moved through the morning tainted with sleep. I prepared a light breakfast then prepared for the day: dressed carefully, a little something for everyone – light worsted...

Wormsong and Descant

I awoke late and moved through the morning tainted with sleep. I prepared a light breakfast then prepared for the day: dressed carefully, a little something for everyone – light worsted...

Poetry on the Platforms

Poetry on the Platforms

Poetry on the Platforms started in 2021 with an extraordinary metro journey in my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne. I was on public transport for the first time in...

Poetry on the Platforms

Poetry on the Platforms started in 2021 with an extraordinary metro journey in my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne. I was on public transport for the first time in...

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