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‘A fine portrait of a wounded midlife.’ James Smart in the Guardian on Time Being by Jude Cook – a philosopher, a terrible mistake and the biggest questions. £10.99 from Salt. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

Sunday morning reading @saltpublishing.com

". . . he appeared relatively well adjusted. He had introduced me to my first bong." @kieranstories.bsky.social's story 'Why Do You Let Me Lie Here Wastefully?' starts with a bike theft and then takes a brilliantly unexpected and surreal turn. Superb. #shortstories @saltpublishing.com

The Branch

#TheDeeperRead 42 features "Mammogram" from Emma Simon's Shapeshifting for Beginners from @saltpublishing.com, twinned with my poem of the same title from the Ver Poets Prize 2026 anthology, selected by @nessalampert.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

What Happens When Fiction Walks Into a Milliner's Studio ‘Sometimes a character arrives before the hat does. That is how it felt when I began working with Michelle Lovric on her novel The Puffin.’

look what a good friend sent me - as seen in Didsbury library! @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @cathstaincliffe.bsky.social

Terrific review of Time Being by @judecook.bsky.social in The Jewish Chronicle. www.thejc.com/life/books/t...

I hope you're all carefully noting the differences between the Salt and Sandstone texts, perhaps preparing your own definitive hybrid version of Animal Lovers for use in the eventual OUP edition

A terrific afternoon at Kemps Books in Malton, as Louis de Bernières signed copies of Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps – and plenty of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Thanks to Liz and the team, and to everyone who came along. #IndieBookshop #LouisdeBernieres

Superb review of The Puffin on the Daily Mail! Huge thanks to Eithne Farry!

Michelle Lovric’s The Puffin reviewed in The Times! 🤩

Join writer Michelle Lovric and Mark Oakley to celebrate the release of Michelle's latest book: 'The Puffin' 26 October 6.30 p.m. The Library, Southwark Cathedral Buy your tickets now cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/261...

Celebrating 27 years of independent publishing. www.saltpublishing.com Beautiful books you won’t forget

Celebrating 27 years of independent publishing. www.saltpublishing.com Beautiful books you won’t forget

Join writer Michelle Lovric and Mark Oakley to celebrate the release of Michelle's latest book: 'The Puffin' 26 October 6.30 p.m. The Library, Southwark Cathedral Buy your tickets now cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/261...

Michelle Lovric’s The Puffin reviewed in The Times! 🤩

Superb review of The Puffin on the Daily Mail! Huge thanks to Eithne Farry!

Out now! Salt's "Best British Short Stories 2026", selected as always by the great @nicholasroyle.bsky.social , which includes the title story of my recent collection, "The Anechoic Chamber". @saltpublishing.com

The highlight of the short story reader's (and writer's) year. Very pleased to see stories in here by @kieranstories.bsky.social @vickygrut.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social and @charlieratpig.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading all @saltpublishing.com

And the copies have arrived! Looking magnificent... @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social @polyscribe70.bsky.social

‘Why Do You Let Me Lie Here Wastefully?’ in Best British Short Stories 2026. I’ve kept to myself this year, working on my blog, so I wasn’t expecting *this*. Excited to know that more people will read the story. Overawed to be in such good company. @saltpublishing.com

I am delighted to have a story in this year's edition of Best British Short Stories, which is out this week. Thanks to the indefatigable series editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and to @saltpublishing.com I look forward to reading the other contributions. www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

Stunning review of The Puffin in The Times (paywall).

Delighted that Celia by @grahammort.bsky.social has been inc. in Best British Short Stories 2027 ed., @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com. For preorders tinyurl.com/4ckktd2s. And here's another chance to read Celia Please follow the link below fictivedream.com/2025/11/16/c...

Salt signs a major crime trilogy from @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social from Matthew Hamilton at The Hamilton Agency www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Out today: Best British Short Stories 2026, edited by Nicholas Royle. Sixteen years on, the annual guide to the very best new fiction includes a Graham Greene discovery, ‘Reading at Night’. £10.99. www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

A Scholion on a Bitcoin Novel Tibor Fischer's ‘My Bags Are Big’, the Houellebecq question and the difference between Bitcoin and crypto

‘Taking my hat off to millinery: when an historical novelist puts the art at the heart of her new book – Michelle Lovric’ the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/10/taki...

Louis de Bernières Torbay Literary Festival 29 November ‘His latest book ‘Smelling of Rooks’ began as a happy accident. He started writing about the texture of his daily life, living in his Georgian rectory in Norfolk.’ torbayliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/lady-a...

Louis de Bernières feature in Norfolk Magazine 🥳 www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/no...

It's VOTING TIME! Come and cast your vote for Louis de Bernières’ Smelling of Rooks! peoplesbookprize.com/2026-books/s...

Out today! The Puffin by Michelle Lovric – a disfigured traitor, a revolutionary milliner, a sadistic assassin, a poet. And a puffin. Venice, 1817, told with heart, wit and feathers. 🪶 www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Out today! The Puffin by Michelle Lovric – a disfigured traitor, a revolutionary milliner, a sadistic assassin, a poet. And a puffin. Venice, 1817, told with heart, wit and feathers. 🪶 www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

💥 PRIZE NEWS! Louis de Bernières’s “Smelling of Rooks” is a finalist in The People’s Book Prize! Paul McVeigh’s “I Hear You” is longlisted for The Polari Prize 2026! #Booksky #SaltPublishing

A short Substack essay on the last day of September about the challenges of writing in a hybrid genre. Read Between Two Chairs: Writing a Literary Thriller for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/between-tw... @saltpublishing.com

My review of Tim Relf's "Not Even October" @saltpublishing.com published on Everybody's Reviewing: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

ICYMI: @saltpublishing.com has reported an 86% rise in sales for the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, with growth attributed to “the calibre of writers now joining the list, a shift towards agented submissions and a sharper focus on books with clear readerships” 👇

Join us for an evening with Louis de Bernières at Sheringham Little Theatre – Saturday 3rd October.

Jackie Law reviews Smelling of Rooks by Louis de Bernières

@saltpublishing.com has reported an 86% rise in sales for the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, with growth attributed to “the calibre of writers now joining the list, a shift towards agented submissions and a sharper focus on books with clear readerships” 👇

Salt Publishing has acquired Big Sunday, the third novel from writer, director and comedian Andy Hamilton. The novel will publish as a B-format paperback original on 23rd August 2027. 👇

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana has just published Skinship, her second collection with @saltpublishing — exploring Japan, Britain, intimacy, motherhood, memory and belonging. themadridreview.substack.com/p/when-you-r... #Japan #Japanlife #poetry @saltpublishing.com @corrintachibana.bsky.social

More news! Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s new novel, Big Sunday! www.thebookseller.com/rights/salt-... #BookSky