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Three Poems
After Ill Health I wonder if extreme old age will be like this, the hours passing like soft clicks of thumb and index finger. Gossamer webs stretch with tiny knots...
Three Poems
After Ill Health I wonder if extreme old age will be like this, the hours passing like soft clicks of thumb and index finger. Gossamer webs stretch with tiny knots...
Salt’s Top 10 Historical Fiction Titles to Read...
Discover 2026's most anticipated historical fiction. Our top 10 list covers Tudor England, revolutionary Venice, and 1830s Siberia. Which one is your next read?
Salt’s Top 10 Historical Fiction Titles to Read...
Discover 2026's most anticipated historical fiction. Our top 10 list covers Tudor England, revolutionary Venice, and 1830s Siberia. Which one is your next read?
The Shocks of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector. The two names in asymmetric union are slightly startling, jarring. Was she British? American? The surname is a little bit sinister, with its evocation of inspectors, of Spectre . . ....
The Shocks of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector. The two names in asymmetric union are slightly startling, jarring. Was she British? American? The surname is a little bit sinister, with its evocation of inspectors, of Spectre . . ....
Six Months That Changed Everything: Salt’s Ment...
From systemic change to renewed ambition, how six months of IPG mentoring helped reshape Salt’s publishing strategy – and how eighteen months on the results are beginning to show.
Six Months That Changed Everything: Salt’s Ment...
From systemic change to renewed ambition, how six months of IPG mentoring helped reshape Salt’s publishing strategy – and how eighteen months on the results are beginning to show.
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...
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’
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
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’
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...