Beautiful books you won’t forget

Welcome to Salt

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.

Salt has recently featured in

A gripping black comedy

Guy Ware and Will Wiles © Gilson Pereira

The origins of the Labour Party

A beautiful and hypnotic tale of the ageing Woodstock generation

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

Nicholas Royle, photograph © Harry Sherriff