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Charlotte Tierney’s audacious debut novel is much more than simply the wry horror of a young woman’s beastly metamorphosis, The Cat Bride views the eerie liminality of teenaged girls through a pastoral Gothic fug of lairy nineties lads, booze and fags. Unmissable.
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Xan Brooks longlisted for £25,000 Walter Scott ...
Xan Brooks’s widely-reviewed second novel, The Catchers, has been nominated for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. It is the second time Brooks has been selected for the...
Xan Brooks longlisted for £25,000 Walter Scott ...
Xan Brooks’s widely-reviewed second novel, The Catchers, has been nominated for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. It is the second time Brooks has been selected for the...
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White Space for the poet Adrian Mitchell
Early mentors in writing can be forever. Mine is Adrian Mitchell.
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Early mentors in writing can be forever. Mine is Adrian Mitchell.
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I first read James Kelman’s stories in the mid-nineties and, while I hugely admired Kelman from an early stage, I found his work hard going.
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I first read James Kelman’s stories in the mid-nineties and, while I hugely admired Kelman from an early stage, I found his work hard going.
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Michael Arditti joins the Salt list
In what is being hailed as a very significant acquisition, we have signed acclaimed author Michael Arditti to our list.
Michael Arditti joins the Salt list
In what is being hailed as a very significant acquisition, we have signed acclaimed author Michael Arditti to our list.
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