My #bookreview of @livimichael.bsky.social's Elizabeth and Ruth @saltpublishing.com for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/eliz... #historicalfiction #victorian #manchester 'the best-intentioned philanthropists...saw frailty and weakness where they ought to have seen heroism'

being a cool book shop, we have this one in stock

Whoa! First review of Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael — "Michael’s prose has a vividness one can smell and touch... This novel is both readable and not an ‘easy’ read, and I thoroughly recommend it." — Historical Novel Society

Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw really is a masterly comic creation and Sean Penn is: ridiculous, preening, dangerous, dim, lusty, fragile and ultimately superannuated. And that walk!

Cleaning the shelves, clearing a path in Salty Towers – as we prepare to send out 100s of review copies from our seasonal list. Started the calendar year with our best January in over a decade. Unexpected and thrilling. Already it feels like Salt’s Big Year. #BookSky #WritingCommunity

The ARCs have arrived! 📚✨ Nicholas Royle’s Finders, Keepers is a brilliant, droll look at the "secret life" of second-hand books – from maps-as-bookmarks to charity shop treasures. Out 14 April from @saltpublishing.com. A must-read for #Booksky! #NicholasRoyle #Bibliophile #NewBooks

Massive thanks to writer and film-maker @andrewhook.bsky.social for including Nameless Lake in his top three reads of 2025! @saltpublishing.com Lots of great film and music recommendations here too Andrew-hook.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-best-and-worst-of-2025.html

“Who wants poets to suffer when they can write so well and be happy?” Guy Russell reviews Anna Wordford’s latest collection in Tears in the Fence.

So, this just happened. 🦋 Holding the first advance copies of WASH by Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social. There is truly nothing like the feel of a new book, especially one as good as this.

Is Bitcoin a "mighty payday" or a "long con"? 📉 Tibor Fischer's My Bags Are Big is a hilarious, scathing satire set in the surreal landscape of Dubai. Dive into the costs of wealth and reinvention in this "first great Bitcoin novel." 💰 Coming Feb 18, 2026. #MyBagsAreBig #Crypto

ARCs of Richard Price’s classic novella, The Island, arrive in Salty Towers. 😍

Heather Magee reviews "Elizabeth and Ruth" by Livi Michael in The Bookbag "A story of hypocrisy, injustice and the obstacles against social reform... I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to fans of the historical fiction genre."

Our 2026 Historical Fiction guide is here. 🏛️📖 10 essential novels – from Tudor England and 1830s Siberia to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. See the full list and find your next obsession: 🔗 www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-... #BookSky #HistoricalFiction

Manchester, 1849. Elizabeth Gaskell visits a young girl in prison and begins a fight against the hypocrisy of the day. Based on real letters between Gaskell & Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael is a fierce story of censorship and grit. Out Feb 9! 📖🔥 #BookSky

Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to get lost where nobody is looking. 🦊✨ 📖 Available now from all good bookstores. Published by @saltpublishing #TheFoxOfKensalGreen #RichardTyrrell #SaltPublishing #BookTok #LondonFiction #NewReads

So thrilled to see this review of Richard Tyrrell’s debut, The Fox of Kensal Green: ‘Original and compelling.’ —Daily Mail

Coming to socials this Feb: two heavy hitters. 📚 🕯️ Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael: A vivid Victorian drama of Gaskell, Dickens, & a story so dangerous it was burned. 💰 My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer: The first great Bitcoin novel. A biting, hilarious Dubai satire. #BookSky

Tibor Fischer selected— “Our 25 most anticipated fiction books for 2026” | The ShortList

Come on @news.sky.com – we're doing our best to export.

Does Bitcoin change the world, or just reveal it? 🤔 Cory Klippsten reviews Tibor Fischer’s new novel, My Bags Are Big. ‘Money never fixes meaning. It just strips away the excuses.’ 📖 My Bags Are Big | Out 18 Feb 2026 Pre-order/Info: tinyurl.com/MyBagsAreBig #Bitcoin #TiborFischer #MyBagsAreBig

Richard Tyrrell launches The Fox of Kensal Green at Queens Park Bookshop — photos courtesy of Mat Archer.

A package from the old country... #booksky 🖋️📚 @saltpublishing.com I was paying attention 😉

The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell is featured in Sainsbury’s Magazine this month. “Couched in gentleness, this is the story of Wilf Kelly … as he dodges the unkind remarks about his supposed strangeness” — until he is accused of a violent crime. Out now from Salt.

Mail on Sunday review just in. The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell is selected as Best New Fiction, with Simon Humphreys calling it: “Warm-hearted and observant, wonderfully capturing the thought processes of its unlikely hero.”

New year, new book, new blog post! livimichael.co.uk/2026/01/11/e... @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social

"It’s hard to get away from Ulysses, isn’t it, the lodestone of literature, teaching us that every moment holds multitudes of entwining realities (an idea I made use of in The Fox of Kensal Green)." @saltpublishing.com @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/qa-with-rich...

Anthony Cummins selects Tibor Fischer in the New Statesman's Best Fiction to Read This Year.

Shelf awareness: books to look out for in the first half of 2026 From Made in America to Beauty of the Beasts, Lucy Popescu offers up her pick www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/shel...

My pick of books to look out for in Jan-June 2026 from @faberbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @picadorbooks.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/shel...

‘Beautifully written and utterly memorable, The Fox of Kensal Green will stay with me for a long time.’ Read more …

a small toast to my new books! @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social

This is an exciting line up. So happy to see @ericawgnr.bsky.social book Wash. It’s fabulous.

Fiction to look out for in 2026 —The Observer Erica Wagner’s “Wash”

"On one of his regular strolls, his eye was caught by a flash of red among gravestones. The biggest fox he ever saw broke cover. Wilf felt mesmerised and had to follow..." The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell. Out now from @saltpublishing.com 📚📖💙 bookanista.com/a-minority-o...

New from @saltpublishing.com 'The Fox of Kensal Green' by Richard Tyrrell A quiet London neighbourhood is about to be shattered... available from @blackwells.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

📚 OUT NOW 📚 The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell ISBN 9781784633660 Available from all good bookshops in the UK & Ireland. 🎉 Congrats to Richard! Launch: 15 Jan, 6.30–8.30pm Queen’s Park Books, London 🔗 www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

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’ 🎅