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Our winter sale is now on ❄️

Classics from £1.99 – discover fiction, ghost stories, memoirs, mysteries, poetry, short story anthologies, thrillers, writers’ guides and more. Sale ends 31 January 2025.

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  • Michael Arditti

    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.

  • The train to Genova Piazza Principe

    The train to Genova Piazza Principe

    I knew I wanted to escape Thatcher’s Britain and someone had told me that if I fetched up in Italy before the start of the academic year I might land...

    The train to Genova Piazza Principe

    I knew I wanted to escape Thatcher’s Britain and someone had told me that if I fetched up in Italy before the start of the academic year I might land...

  • Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

    Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

    I remember reading a letter in a national broadsheet from a woman in her nineties, who wrote that her lover of many years, a man in his eighties, had found...

    Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

    I remember reading a letter in a national broadsheet from a woman in her nineties, who wrote that her lover of many years, a man in his eighties, had found...

  • Paris Fantastique

    Paris Fantastique

    When I came up with the idea for three collections of short stories set in the three cities I’ve lived in, Paris was always going to be the one that...

    Paris Fantastique

    When I came up with the idea for three collections of short stories set in the three cities I’ve lived in, Paris was always going to be the one that...

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‘Bristles with expertly calibrated menace and moral ambiguity’ —TLS

The Catchers by Xan Brooks

The Catchers

The Catchers

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The Literary Fiction You Should Be Reading

‘There’s a slight Mrs Dalloway-esque air to this slim novel, which spans the hours that pianist Claire spends waiting to attend the birthday party of her novelist friend, Martin … As her mind circles around her numerous lovers – and her ‘found family’ – she meditates on what makes for a life well-lived and re-evaluates her marriage: was it as happy as she is determined to believe? And was her husband’s death a stroke, or perhaps an accident that she had a hand in?’ —Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

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Lie of the Land

Lie of the Land is a dark, domestic literary thriller set in the Black Country in the Midlands, UK. When Rory and Jemma meet, Rory already has a girlfriend, but that doesn’t stop them getting together and, much sooner than Jemma would like, they’re buying their first house together in the heart of the grimy Midlands.

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  • Forgetting is How We Survive
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David Frankel

Forgetting is How We Survive

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Eerie, chilling and utterly unique

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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