- Continue Shopping
- Your Cart is Empty
Books VAT Zero Rated
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...
Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness
£8.99
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...
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 Book of Revelation
£9.99
SynopsisThe Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith – late lead singer of The Fall and...
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...
In the Absence of Absalon
£5.39
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...
Zero Hours
£9.99
Synopsis In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of...
The Existential Detective
£5.99
SynopsisWilliam Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers...
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
£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...
After Absalon
£9.99
Synopsis The story of a man walking down a ramp, After Absalon is the culmination of Simon Okotie’s extraordinary trilogy of novels. Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, is on the trail...
Your Fault
£12.99
Synopsis Metro: Best Fiction of 2019 Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 ‘Elegant, unsparing, meticulously detailed novel in which a conscientious boy grows up with bedeviled parents. Where...
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...
Every Seventh Wave
£9.99
SynopsisEvery Seventh Wave has strong echoes of Fiona Mozley’s Elmet and Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing. Strongly lyrical, the novel also serves as a literary thriller, with a suspenseful...
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...
Operation Three Wise Men
£0.00
Synopsis In this one-off short story set in the Bitter Sixteen universe, everyone's favourite wise-cracking beagle Daryl gets a slightly more violent Christmas than he bargained for... Praise for Bitter...
Like Fado
£9.99
SynopsisLonglisted for the Edge Hill PrizeLike Fado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, ‘Whitethorn’. Each story takes us into the lived experience and psychological...
Implacable Art
£7.95
Synopsis‘In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn’s work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her...
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...
Sky Hooks
£8.99
Synopsis A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs for the warmth and women of the office,...
The Somnambulist Cookbook
£9.99
SynopsisLyrical and at times unsettling, The Somnambulist Cookbook explores the quality of disappearance, slowly breaking down as the poems swing from rogue sonnets to fractured prose poems, reminiscent of Larkin,...
Reconciliation
£8.99
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...
The Squeeze
£9.99
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....
Fly Away Home
£8.99
Synopsis Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Fly Away Home is Marina Warner’s third – and eagerly-awaited - collection of short stories. Inspired by fairy tales, legends,...
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
£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
£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...
natural histories
£5.85 £6.50
SynopsisNature is not so much the subject as an unavoidable force in these poems, providing space and fodder for meditations on our knowledge of self and other. Here, the small...
Luxe
£9.99
SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
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...
Broken Things
£5.99
Synopsis “In fact, the higher I climbed, the more I felt the crawling horror of knowledge. At the foot of the stairs, all of truth lay torn open, flayed; with...
The Harbour Beyond the Movie
£5.99
Synopsis Shortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007 Next Generation Poet 2014 Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant...
Flotsam
£9.99
Synopsis ‘By turns beguiling and unsettling, Flotsam examines grief and loss through the eyes of an extraordinary child’ Rachel Seiffert Trine and her mother live in a cottage on the...
You
£9.99
Synopsis Big Issue in the North Summer Reading Recommendation A man boards a train, hoping to see the daughter he has heard nothing from for seven years. As he travels...
Pictures from Hopper
£8.99
Synopsis Neil Campbell’s new collection of short stories draws upon the work of American painter Edward Hopper. Many of the stories are directly inspired by the visual stimuli of a...
A Lost Expression
£9.99
SynopsisThis is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse...
The Beginning of the End
£5.39
Synopsis Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father’s body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks...
Justine
£5.99
Synopsis Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of...
The Fat of Fed Beasts
£5.39
Synopsis ‘Fleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett’s novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years’ Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian Monday lunchtime: a bank...
All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten
£9.99
SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story CollectionWho are the stars of these brief lives? A boy who steals a trundlewheel. An astronaut. A betrayed wife. A...
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,...
It Gets Worse
£9.99
SynopsisIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard’s rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick’s fortunes have not improved. At...
The Frost Fairs
£9.99
SynopsisWinner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global...
The Mystic and The Pig Thief
£9.99
SynopsisThe Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the...
The Tidal Wife
£9.99
Synopsis Kaddy Benyon’s second collection, The Tidal Wife, is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms and as emotional states; the need to retreat and be cut off as much...
The Well at Winter Solstice
£9.99
Synopsis These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough...
Beautiful Place
£12.99
SynopsisBeautiful Place is a novel about leaving and losing home and making family. It is about being oppressed and angry and wanting a better life – but how is a...
Footer
Main Menu
Great books, all the time.
Book Distribution
E-book Distribution
Copyright © 2022 Salt | United Kingdom | All rights reserved
