Our History
Chris Hamilton-Emery
Director, Salt
Jen and I founded Salt in our Cambridge kitchen at the end of the Nineties, and over the course of the following decade we published over four hundred poetry collections, working with writers around the world. Prizes followed. The addition of further teams in Australia and the USA added to the development of the list, and ambitions rose to change the feisty indie into a broader trade publisher. New distribution deals led to ever greater outreach. International sales expanded. A rights team was created.
A short story list began to emerge in 2006, and by the end of the decade over fifty collections had been published. Salt expanded into general fiction and 2012 saw our first Booker Prize nomination with Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse. Salt had successfully pivoted into literary fiction and its reputation and sales grew.
It was a period of great expansion and considerable challenge. Over one hundred novels have now been published and Salt has won, or been nominated for, more than twenty literary prizes around the world.
In 2024, Salt turned twenty-five, and Kirsty – a senior journalist – joined the team to develop our marketing and publicity. Additionally, Salt retained award-winning communications agency FMcM, to develop our brand and campaigns, a new international sales team has been appointed, and the company is diversifying into historical and genre fiction, and non-fiction.
As we start our second quarter century, we plan for a new period of change and development, and we look forward to bringing you even more unforgettable books. Thanks for visiting Salt. Happy reading!
Registered Office Address
Salt Publishing Limited
12 Norwich Road
CROMER
North Norfolk
NR27 0AX
United Kingdom
Company No. 05293401
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ISNI No. 0000 0000 9837 6153
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