Beautiful books you won’t forget

All human life needs Salt.’ —Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate

Salt is one of the UK’s leading independent publishing houses, established in 1999. Over twenty-five years, Salt has discovered more than a thousand writers from around the world, and we continue to publish absorbing, bold and surprising voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and short stories.

Shadow Lines very much celebrates the world of books’ —Telegraph

Nicholas Royle, photograph © Harry Sherriff

‘What is it about Our Island Story that so grips the Tory imagination?’

Guy Ware and Will Wiles © Gilson Pereira

Old Men galvanises, entertains and moves by turns.’ —Jacqueline Saphra

Peter Daniels. Photo © Emmy Beazley-Williams