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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.

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Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2024

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

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The Night-Soil Men is an electric piece of writing, deft and funny and occasionally obscene.’ —New Statesman