Welcome to Salt’s 2017 list. This is our eighteenth year of publishing and there has never been a more exciting time for the list.
In 2016, Salt had The Many by Wyl Menmuir longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Paul McVeigh’s debut, The Good Son, was selected for Brighton’s City Reads, shortlisted for the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, chosen for the Irish Times Book of the Month, and went on to win the Polari First Book Prize 2016. In addition, Ron Butlin and Lesley Glaister were both longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016.
This year, Salt will continue to discover and share different, diverse and seriously entertaining reads. We hope you enjoy them.
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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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Synopsis The Herald 2017 Books of the Year 1985, Edinburgh. Thatcher’s policies are biting deep – fat cats and street-kids, lovers, losers and the rest struggle to survive. Hume sets...
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Synopsis A double murder is discovered in Spalding some days after it takes place. The victims are Tina Brackenbury, the foster mother of Grace Winter, a ten-year-old who escapes the...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2018 How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a...
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Synopsis Now optioned for TV by Lime Pictures Guardian readers favourite books of 2017 When Emily Morris was a 22-year-old student, she found out she was pregnant. The father of...
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Synopsis Read Regional 2019 – ‘Discover brilliant Northern writers’ Aidan Wilson’s misfortune is to be hard as nails In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story...
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Synopsis In 2012, a deranged grad student dressed as the Joker shot and killed dozens of movie goers at a Batman film opening in Colorado. Gun violence is so out...
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Synopsis Holly Stanton’s grandfather was a spy. In Berlin in September 1939; in Norway when the Germans invaded. Sailed back to Orkney by a brave Norwegian, whose family was killed...
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2018 Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize...
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Synopsis The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased) explores the painful themes of having to grieve for someone who is not yet dead, and trying to find one’s identity through...
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Synopsis Recommended by The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018 Meike Ziervogel’s new novel celebrates how humanity can thrive against all odds. Set at the end of the Second...
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Synopsis Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceaușescu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multi‑award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers....
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Synopsis A young man sits on a bench looking out at the harbour of a French-Spanish border town. Ahead of him, either a cash-strapped existence strolling the sun-baked avenues of...