1999–2024 twenty-five years of Salt. Join us for a remarkable year of celebration.
Founded in the university city of Cambridge, United Kingdom – Salt had small beginnings as a radical poetry publisher – quickly expanding into biography, children’s poetry, drama, essays, journals, literary criticism, memoir, poetry in translation, short stories and, most recently, our successful fiction list.
2024 is a landmark in our publishing history as we celebrate our silver anniversary. We hope you enjoy discovering new Salt new books and classics from our backlist. Thank you for supporting our writers over two decades and we aim to continue providing you with great books, all the time.
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SynopsisBroady’s major work of fiction, nearly a decade in the writing, explores the origins and development of the Independent Labour Party – the working-class political movement founded in Bradford in...
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SynopsisDenis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his father’s funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising – it depends what you...
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Synopsis‘Peter Daniels’ new collection explores gay liaisons and relationships, as well as ageing and mortality. The title poem borrows from Yeats, “That is no country for old men. The young...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 11Synopsis‘A major selection of new stories from the widely-acclaimed author of The Flint Bed (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), A Condition of Ice, and A Divison...
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Synopsis‘Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...
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SynopsisThe ‘shadow line’ is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on...
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SynopsisWhen artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love sends shockwaves through her life, as she...