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Salt Modern Stories
This new Salt series showcases contemporary short story writers born, or working in, the British Isles. Beautiful paperback originals in A format, pocket editions, with classic Salt covers, that will form a must-have set for all story enthusiasts and book collectors.
Salt began publishing short story collections in 2006, launching with David Gaffney’s Sawn-Off Tales, and over the past sixteen years has published 103 titles from writers all over the world, these sit beside our bestselling anthology series, Best British Short Stories, that forms an annual survey of the most compelling stories published in the previous year, selected by Nicholas Royle.
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Eastmouth and Other Stories
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 6SynopsisAlison Moore’s debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, gathered together stories written prior to the publication of her first novel.‘The tales collected in The...
Licensed Premises
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Series Name: Salt Modern Stories Number: 1 Synopsis ‘Nobody believes what they see on TV, so they want to look for something else, an alternate reality, or a conspiracy theory, and...
Mammals, I Think We Are Called
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 5SynopsisAmbitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the fantastical, as their outsider characters explore what it’s...
Candescent Blooms
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 3SynopsisCandescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors who suffered untimely deaths. From Olive Thomas...
Connective Tissue
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 2SynopsisThis collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at...
The Man Who Loved Kuras and Other Stories
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 4SynopsisHowell’s much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narrative flair. In this striking new collection, we...
Forgetting is How We Survive
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 9SynopsisA plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is found on a dark lakeside. A woman tries to make sense of a strange memory from her...
Concrete Fields
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 10SynopsisThe countryside – what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other...
Scablands and Other Stories
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 8SynopsisThese are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath...
The Moon is Trending
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 7Synopsis‘This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling,...
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