Myths and fairy tales

Salt's myths and fairy tales list takes familiar forms – the fairy tale, the folk story, the fable – and turns them toward adult concerns: desire, grief, transformation and the strange logic of inherited stories.

Kirsty Logan's The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales and Cassandra Parkin's New World Fairy Tales sit alongside Padrika Tarrant's darkly inventive Broken Things and The Knife Drawer, with Zoë Apostolides's The Homecoming bringing a more contemporary register to the list.