Some 5-Star Indie Reads I recommended at yesterday's Belfast Book Festival event: @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Leonard and Hungry Paul Should We Fall Behind @epoquepress.bsky.social El Hacho The Nacullians @saltpublishing.com The Good Son #LoveBooks #LoveReading #Indies

It’s a chilled saturday morning and I’ve just done an archive re-release to set the tone for the day It’s with writer,editor, critic, publisher and all round bookish good guy @nicholasroyle.bsky.social WHITE SPINES:CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK COLLECTOR @saltpublishing.com

We loved Jim Jasmusch's new film, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.

‘Yes, but what is coming next year,’ we hear you shout.

Independent press Salt Publishing has reported 36% year-on-year growth reaching £102k in the 12 months to May 2026, compared to £75k for the equivalent period a year earlier. 👇

Publishing reached its highest-ever revenue in 2025, according to the Publishers Association’s (@publishersassoc.bsky.social) latest industry statistics, up 3% to £7.4bn, with audiobooks, digital and export key areas of growth. 👇

Proof day. The ARCs for Time Being by Jude Cook have landed – and we're rather taken with them. A taut literary thriller about a mercy killing gone wrong. 'Jude Cook writes like a dream' – Monique Roffey. Out 7 September 2026. #booksky #literaryfiction

Cover reveal! 'Bloomsbury Boy', the debut memoir by Martin Chilton – chief book critic of The Independent and a former culture editor of the Daily Telegraph.

We have news! Salt signs Martin Chilton with debut memoir Bloomsbury Boy The Independent’s chief book critic turns memoirist with a vivid, comic and elegiac portrait of growing up in 1960s and 1970s Bloomsbury. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Proof day. The ARCs for Time Being by Jude Cook have landed – and we're rather taken with them. A taut literary thriller about a mercy killing gone wrong. 'Jude Cook writes like a dream' – Monique Roffey. Out 7 September 2026. #booksky #literaryfiction

Can’t wait for ‘A Day Like Any Other’ to hit the shops? You’re not alone. To tide you over, here’s a story not in the book you can read at the click of a button… @saltpublishing.com www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...

Three genres, three great writers, three glorious books. The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls (8 June) – historical fiction. A Day Like Any Other by Guy Ware (14 June) – short stories. Making the Wedding Dress by Jackie Wills (15 June) – poetry. Discover more at www.saltpubishing.com

Yes, the going is good.

Yes, the going is good.

Three genres, three great writers, three glorious books. The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls (8 June) – historical fiction. A Day Like Any Other by Guy Ware (14 June) – short stories. Making the Wedding Dress by Jackie Wills (15 June) – poetry. Discover more at www.saltpubishing.com

“The perfect collection for anyone who’s going to die one day” *It says so on the cover, so it must be true @saltpublishing.com www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-d...

Superb review by Nick Rennison of The Maternal Element, the debut novel by Kate Nicholls in The Sunday Times.

Superb review by Nick Rennison of The Maternal Element, the debut novel by Kate Nicholls in The Sunday Times.

There’s a summer sale on over at @inkandescentuk.bsky.social’s website!

Nothing says dreamworld better than Limbic System Overdrive.

If Twitter [RIP] had Tweets, should Bluesky have flaps?

The great gift of having a poor memory is that you forget absolutely everything about this thing that happened.

Did we mention these?

Oh my, next year is here.

Cover reveal! A blackly funny novel about plagiarism, ambition and the price of literary success. Cara McQueen has just landed a two-book deal with one of London’s biggest imprints. At twenty-nine, she is the new firebrand of Belfast letters – or so the press would have it.

Oh my, next year is here.

Cover reveal! A blackly funny novel about plagiarism, ambition and the price of literary success. Cara McQueen has just landed a two-book deal with one of London’s biggest imprints. At twenty-nine, she is the new firebrand of Belfast letters – or so the press would have it.

We have news! Salt signs Rosemary Jenkinson for The Appropriators, a blackly funny novel of plagiarism, ambition and literary revenge Salt Publishing has acquired The Appropriators, the second novel by Rosemary Jenkinson, the Belfast playwright and short story writer.

The Puffin at Palazzo Tron If this post had a subtitle, it would be ‘in which the Royal Mail almost sabotages my debut at the Venice Biennale of Art and I’m made to understand that my artwork is “of no intrinsic value”.’ …

And if you find this enticing, and you are free and in London on June 4, do join me @theobserveruk.bsky.social book club! Where I'll be chatting with the great @tomgatti.bsky.social observer.co.uk/our-events/t...

Independent literary publisher @saltpublishing.com has promoted Kirsty Hamilton-Emery to the newly created role of publicity manager, with expanded responsibility for the publisher’s lead and superlead campaigns. 👇

Delighted to report our own KHE has been promoted.

Join acclaimed fiction writers Kerry Hadley-Pryce and Nicholas Royle to jump start your fiction writing. Kerry and Nicholas can remember what it feels like to be starting out in fiction, whether conventional or experimental, genre or literary, short story or novel.

Join acclaimed fiction writers Kerry Hadley-Pryce and Nicholas Royle to jump start your fiction writing. Kerry and Nicholas can remember what it feels like to be starting out in fiction, whether conventional or experimental, genre or literary, short story or novel.

Terrific review of David Flusfeder’s ‘Something Might Fall’ in the Mail on Sunday. 😍

Astonishing review of Erica Wagner's Wash in today's Observer – huge thanks to Stephanie Merritt. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Amazing review of @ericawgnr.bsky.social’s new novel, Wash, in the Mail on Sunday – ‘A famous American life is reimagined in this masterly historical novel.’

Amazing review of @ericawgnr.bsky.social’s new novel, Wash, in the Mail on Sunday – ‘A famous American life is reimagined in this masterly historical novel.’

Astonishing review of Erica Wagner's Wash in today's Observer – huge thanks to Stephanie Merritt. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Terrific review of David Flusfeder’s ‘Something Might Fall’ in the Mail on Sunday. 😍

@saltpublishing.com I've discovered another author, David Flusfeder, whose tiny novella 'Something Might Fall' is just out. Amazing writing, reminding me of 'Mrs Dalloway'. I must explore more of this author and Salt books My full review: bit.ly/49WWWOV #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

Treat me gently… @saltpublishing.com

“Why I’m Calling You” from Wonder by Chris Emery

“Why I’m Calling You” from Wonder by Chris Emery

😊 so delighted by this lovely review for Wash! 😊

‘A beautifully written illustration of the power of novels to tread where biographies cannot.’ —Antonia Senior, The Times Wash by Erica Wagner – the story of the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, told from the inside.

‘A beautifully written illustration of the power of novels to tread where biographies cannot.’ —Antonia Senior, The Times Wash by Erica Wagner – the story of the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, told from the inside.

Goog things are coming. Immense things. Get ready.

The Appropriators, a new darkly comic novel by Rosemary Jenkinson @saltpublishing.com www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

@saltpublishing.com has acquired Two Good Men, a century-spanning novel of love, secrets and 20th-century Europe, by Emma Henderson. 👇