New book new blog #Elizabeth Gaskell # Charles Dickens # Ruth livimichael.co.uk/2025/12/07/1... @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social

2020 #61 An excellent little coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Germany and composed in taut, unadorned prose of a kind I've always liked. There's an outline in the alt text, another fine little book from @saltpublishing.com and an author I would soon be reading more of. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

Coming soon from Salt. Discover the 2026 list now: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...

There's nothing like finding a great book among the new submissions. Best way to start the new year.

Happy New Year, folks! Hope it's a BIG BOOK year.

5th book for #GuadalupesReinas2025: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales de Kirsty Logan. Quirky short stories about (un/non)love, lust, and desire. @saltpublishing.com bsky.app/profile/alti...

5to libro de #GuadalupeReinas2025: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales de Kirsty Logan, @saltpublishing.com. Son historias cortas, estrafalarias, que tratan sobre deseos, anhelos y pérdidas; sobre amores y desamores cis, bi y gay. La portada esta rechula (x eso lo compré 😝).

Wishing you all a very merry, book-filled Christmas!🎄🧑‍🎄☃️

new novel new post! livimichael.co.uk/2025/12/07/1... @ailsacox.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com

A huge thank you to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com, @thelincolnreview.bsky.social, @vikshirley.bsky.social & @sublunary.bsky.social for publishing (nominating) my work in 2025. To Rossi Contemporary & Claire Oberst, for exhibiting it & @lauradavispoems.bsky.social for carrying it!

@saltpublishing.com New post about new novel! livimichael.co.uk

We’ve updated our submissions guidelines for agents.

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Tim Relf's pick: Wonder by Chris Emery (Salt Publishing). Thank you, Tim!

‘16 gifts mums actually want this Christmas’ —Daily Mail Sasha Butler’s ‘The Marriage Contract’ 🎅

2020 #46 The debut novel from another real favourite of mine, a Black Country writer who brings us dark tales from that oft ignored part of the English Midlands. Also debuts the author's distinct and unsettling narrative style, the blurb gives a hint. @saltpublishing.com ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky #books

A wonderfully creepy gothic tale (with eels!) for today's #BestBooks2025: The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides. Published by @saltpublishing.com. westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/t...

Christmas begins with a beautiful book 🎄 Four unforgettable Salt reads — fiction, poetry, short stories and dark magic — all available now at your local bookshop. Support bookshops. Christmas books you won’t forget. #SaltBooks #ChristmasBooks #IndieBookshops

Mike Farren reviews Wonder by Chris Emery in the latest issue of The High Window

I only know Anthony Jeselnik from one stand-up clip (the 'cunt' joke) but this is one of the most interesting book round-ups I have seen for a while.

"the most fun I’ve had with a story all year" - huge thanks to @kieranstories.bsky.social for choosing my story 'Ghost Walks' and Best British Short Stories 2025 among his best reads of the year @saltpublishing.com

HEY PPL: Give your favorite readers the gift of books this season BUT please, please, please BUY FROM INDIE BOOKSTORES & INDIE AUTHORS (just say HELL NO to amazondotcom,ffs!)

Best British Short Stories 2025 is here – the fifteenth volume of our landmark annual anthology. Edited by Nicholas Royle, it gathers the most exciting short fiction of 2024 from major names and brilliant new voices. A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life. #BBSS2025 #ShortFiction

A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying

‘A moment that changed me: my train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying’ Anna Woodford in today's Guardian

Coming September 2026 – Louis de Bernières’ Norfolk diaries: Smelling of Rooks.

Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026 👉 www.saltpublishing.com

Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues

On a year in reading, featuring @cbeditions.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026 👉 www.saltpublishing.com

Coming September 2026 – Louis de Bernières’ Norfolk diaries: Smelling of Rooks.

We are thrilled to announce that Lous de Bernières is join the Salt list in 2026 with his Norfolk diaries. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

2020 #31 A candidate for best novel I read in 2020 and definitely the best novel set around the great Miner's Strike of 1984-85 in the UK. A superb debut from one of my favourite British writers and I've put the blurb in the alt text. Get it at @saltpublishing.com ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky #books

We've updated the Salt website – new layouts for the author directory, updated pages for careers, design and typography, events, book and magazine submissions, pretty much the entire site revised in some degree. www.saltpublishing.com #SaltPublishing #HouseMagazine #LitCommunity

Thank you to everyone at Salt Books for making it possible to get Maria’s story out into the world. Her love of boooks was inspired by her father, who ran a family publishing house. I am deeply touched that Salt is publishing her story.

A poem for Advent and Cyber Monday, from Chris Emery's latest collection #WONDER, out now from Salt @chrisemery.me @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/christmas-is...

I’m lucky — I’ve met Maria because I got to read an early draft of this remarkable novel. I can’t wait for you to meet her next year!

Discover the story behind The Maternal Element: Kate Nicholls on Maria Mendeleeva, motherhood, and the powerful gaps in our histories. A beautiful read. ✨

Kate Nicholls’ extraordinary fictionalisation of Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva – forthcoming from Salt

We’ve launched a new page on Salt’s design and typography — the craft behind every book we make. From bus timetables to Cromer, it’s been quite a journey in type. Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design... #BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing

Salt acquires Kate Nicholls' 'evocative' debut novel

Thanks to Amanda Loose for featuring Wonder in the latest issue of North Norfolk Living.

Oh my bloody goodness- what a satisfying read. Zoë Apostolides has a glorious voice. Huge thanks to @saltpublishing.com - if one of you hadn’t followed me here, I’d never have bought this. #Superb #Eerie #NewFiction

Sasha Butler's THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT has been selected for Cosmopolitan's Book Awards 2025! 🥳🥂🍾

I’ve been lucky enough to read Wash. Erica is a magnificent writer. It’s brave, writing glorious writing.

‘Skin Job’ – a new story by Catherine Eisner in House Magazine.

Big news at Salty Towers.

Huge congratulations to Chris Emery on the publication of his fifth collection of poetry, ‘Wonder’! 🥳🍾🥂🎉 ‘Wonder’ is available from all good bookstores today!

Salt buys Erica Wagner novel Wash 'is a gripping character study, a historical novel that explores masculinity and sexuality, ambition and damage in breathtaking, immersive prose' by exploring the life of Washington Roebling, the engineer behind New York's Brooklyn Bridge

Thank you to everyone who has donated to Salt over the past few weeks – every penny has now been passed on to our wonderful authors and contributors. We'll be bringing more news about our 2026 list soon – and we'll begin commissioning our 2027 list in the new year.

Catherine Taylor reviews The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides in this week's TLS 😍