Our History
Chris Hamilton-Emery
Director, Salt
Jen and I founded Salt in our Cambridge kitchen at the end of the late Nineties, and over the course of the following decade we published over four hundred poetry collections, working with writers around the world. Prizes followed. The addition of further teams in Australia and the USA added to the development of the list, and ambitions rose to change the feisty indie into a broader trade publisher. New distribution deals led to ever greater outreach. International sales expanded. A rights team was created.
A short fiction list began to emerge in 2006, and by the end of the decade over fifty short story collections had been published. Salt expanded into general fiction and 2012 saw our first Booker Prize nomination with The Lighthouse. Salt had successfully pivoted into literary fiction and its reputation and sales grew.
It was a period of great expansion and considerable challenge.
Over one hundred novels have now been published and Salt has won, or been nominated in, over twenty literary prizes around the globe. Today, as Salt turns twenty-five, Kirsty – a senior journalist – has joined the Salt team and is developing our national marketing and publicity, and the press is diversifying into historical and genre fiction, as we plan for a new golden era.
Registered Office Address
Salt Publishing Limited
12 Norwich Road
CROMER
North Norfolk
NR27 0AX
United Kingdom
Company No. 05293401
VAT Registration No. GB834881989
EORI No. GB834881989000
ISNI No. 0000 0000 9837 6153
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