- Continue Shopping
- Your Cart is Empty
Books VAT Zero Rated
Best British Short Stories 2019
£9.99
Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
Little Egypt
£5.99
Synopsis Winner 2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Sunday Herald Book of the Year 2014 Elderly, Egypt-mad twins Isis and Osiris find their neglected English...
Best British Short Stories 2018
£8.99 £9.99
Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
Best British Short Stories 2015
£9.99
Synopsis “Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …” Best British Short Stories invites you to...
My Shitty Twenties
£8.99
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...
In the Family
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis This novel is a psychological thriller as well as a compelling crime read. The discovery of the skeleton of a young woman by workmen causes Detective Inspector Tim Yates...
The Pre-War House and Other Stories
£9.99
Synopsis Shortlisted for the East Midland’s Book Award 2014 The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for...
The Photographer
£8.99
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...
The Other World, It Whispers
£5.99
Synopsis From the secrets of the forest, to the magic of the sea, these nine stories tell of what happens when passion, desire, loneliness and imprisonment lead us on a...
Sister Sebastian’s Library
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters’ lives: one who leaves her secular Catholic life to become a nun in deepest Africa, and...
Dead Funny: Encore
£9.99
Synopsis What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the...
Bitter Sixteen: Book One: The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy
£7.99
Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for new writers A Times Children’s Book of the Week A Guardian Top...
The Museum of Cathy
£8.99
Synopsis Guardian Fiction: Book of the Day From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown...
Almost Love
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis Guy Maichment, a landscape gardener, pays a late-night visit to his aunt, Dame Claudia McRae, the well-known veteran archaeologist who lives in an isolated cottage near Helpston, and sees...
Melissa
£5.39
Synopsis Shortlisted for the 2016 East Midland Book Awards Melissa is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2pm on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young...
Melting Point
Sold Out - £4.99 £9.99
SynopsisMelting Point fuses prose and poetry, realism and literary inventiveness, in dealing with the absurdity of humanity. Its fourteen stories embrace a dizzying variety of genres: hyperrealism, sci-fi, the Gothic...
Never Never Never Come Back
Sold Out - £9.99
Synopsis Don’t go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you’ll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality...
Dead Funny
£8.99
Synopsis What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some...
Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined
£5.99
SynopsisThis long-awaited collection brings together a selection of Stella Duffy’s award-winning short fiction. It includes stories written for radio, here in print for the first time since they were broadcast,...
Trio
£5.39
Synopsis Northumberland: the winter of 1937. In a remote moorland cottage, Steven Coulter, a young history teacher, is filled with sadness and longing at the death of his wife. Through...
Habit
£5.99
Synopsis Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job centre and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her ‘Uncle’ Ian, and a heavy night...
Posthumous Stories
£9.99
Synopsis David Rose’s debut novel Vault won high praise upon its publication in 2011. Now, Salt is pleased to present Rose’s long-awaited collection of short stories – a series of...
Best British Short Stories 2014
£9.99
Synopsis ‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review Best British Short Stories invites you to judge...
Werewolf
Sold Out - £8.99
SynopsisAugust 1945, Germany. The Allies have won the war. Now they have to win the peace …Silas Payne is a Scotland Yard officer seconded to Germany to help implement the...
Fair of Face
Sold Out - £8.99
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...
Blade Pitch Control Unit
Sold Out - £9.99
SynopsisBlade Pitch Control Unit is a gathering of Sean Bonney’s work in poetry over the last five years. It collects together all the work from his previous pamphlets that he...
Overheard
Sold Out - £9.99
Synopsis Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Fiction Anthology From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This...
Used to Be
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize What if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you’ve spent your whole life...
Where Grown Men Go
Sold Out - £0.50 £9.99
Synopsis Michael Brown’s poems have been widely-published in magazines such as The North, Southword and The Rialto, as well as in two pamphlets. In this debut full-length collection, we find...
Chicken Unga Fever
£9.99
Synopsis Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods? No, Chicken Unga Fever is a collection of...
In the Land of the Giants
Sold Out - £6.99
SynopsisWinner of the CLPE Poetry AwardGeorge Szirtes’ children’s poems comprise riddles, mysteries and parables, strange encounters, cautionary tales, and meditations on just about everything under the sun — from the...
In Their Own Words
Sold Out - £1.99 £10.99
Synopsis In Their Own Words is a celebration of the variousness of contemporary poets living and writing in the UK today. 56 poets talk about their own poetic voices and...
The Birth Machine
£8.99
Synopsis Tucked up on the ward and secure in the latest technology, Zelda is about to give birth to her baby. But things don’t go to plan, and as her...
Bones & Breath
Sold Out - £9.99
Synopsis Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of The Year Award Winner 2014 People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath – this masterly collection from Alexander Hutchison –...
Billionaires’ Banquet
£5.39
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...
101 Ways to Make Poems Sell
Sold Out - £10.99
Synopsis 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell is an insider’s guide to the poetry business, focusing on the issues that matter: building profile, finding readers and selling books. Hamilton-Emery offers...
The Crossing
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry, thinking that the Skegness train has been cancelled, but it comes...
Changing Room
Sold Out - £9.99
Synopsis From cramped cubicles to rented bedrooms, hallways that become highways in the sleepless hours, to the space and beauty of a shrine; Woodford’s award-winning poems revisit old rooms and...
Best British Horror 2015
Sold Out - £9.99
Synopsis The Home of Horror British Fantasy Award winning editor Johnny Mains ferries Salt’s Best series into the dankest recesses of horror with tales written by the UK’s top ghouls....
Sausage Hall
Sold Out - £5.99
Synopsis Sausage Hall is home to millionaire Kevan de Vries, grandson of a Dutch immigrant farmer. De Vries has built up a huge farming and food packing empire which extends,...
The Departure
£1.00 £12.99
Synopsis Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery’s third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from...
The New North
Sold Out - £9.99
SynopsisThe New North is a landmark anthology of contemporary poetry from Northern Ireland with a wide-ranging introduction that gives the reader valuable historical perspective into political and cultural contexts. A...
The Zen of La Llorona
£9.99
Synopsis The Zen of La Llorona is a second collection of poetry by a Native American woman, and as such, it goes beyond initial concerns with personal racial identity. While...
Some Bright Elegance
Sold Out - £6.50
SynopsisSome Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning...
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)
£5.39
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...
Rooted in Dishonour
Sold Out - £8.99
Synopsis The fifth novel in the DI Yates series Eighteen-year-old Ayesha Verma disappears from her home in Spalding just a few days after her parents have introduced her to the...
The Salt Book of Younger Poets
Sold Out - £10.99
SynopsisThe Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets embrace new technologies such as blogs, social networking and...
The White Road and Other Stories
Sold Out - £5.99
Synopsis What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning...
Footer
Main Menu
Great books, all the time.
Book Distribution
E-book Distribution
Copyright © 2023 Salt | Sheffield | United Kingdom | All rights reserved
