The Short and The Long of It: Andrew Philip interviews Tania Hershman

Andrew Philip has posted a fantastic interview with Tania Hershman on his blog Tonguefire.

Please do check it out here: http://wp.me/pBKHO-gJ

Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box and Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories are both available NOW from our online [...]

Don’t Miss Wena Poon at the South Bank Centre

One of Asia’s new literary stars, Wena Poon, performs from Alex y Robert, a witty novel about the American granddaughter of a famous Spanish bullfighter who returns to Spain to become a matador. Winner of the 2010 Willesden Prize in England, twice long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Award in Ireland, Wena has been lauded [...]

The Edge Hill Prize, Phoenix Artist Club and Salt Launch

Yesterday I had such a brilliant day in London. It felt like I’d been trapped in the office for an age, so it was so good to get on the train and head to the big city. It was the Edge Hill Short Story awards, which were being held at Blackwells on Charing Cross [...]

Saturday 17th July 2010 Ten Years in the Making

Next Saturday is our tenth anniversary. It’s been an astonishing decade, a decade of great change. I was still working at Cambridge University Press when I started Salt, publishing for fun as respite from the massive digital development programme we had underway at the Press. It was an exciting time. We were developing new [...]

New paperback edition of Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark

We’ve just released a paperback edition of Mark Waldron’s stunning debut collection The Brand New Dark.

The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss of faith in language, a book about our place in the world, [...]

Latest covers from The Cover Factory

Looks like we’ve lost a second major trade customer. It’s getting tougher and tougher on the high street. But we’re still on track with our design challenge — in fact we’ve discovered a further six or so books to design for 2012!

As ever, you can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your [...]

London Launch event Thursday 8th July

We’re having a free Salt Cellars London launch for these three beautiful books at the Phoenix Artist Club:

Find out more on the London Salt Cellars page and confirm your attendance on the facebook [...]

Wena Poon discussing her short story collection, Lions in Winter

Author Wena Poon on Channel News Asia Prime Time Morning

Singapore-born author Wena Poon talks about her latest fiction collection, “Lions In Winter”, on the Prime Time Morning show. The book was longlisted for the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and eventually published in the UK and USA by Salt.

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Katia Kapovich in conversation with Marc Vincenz

Katia Kapovich in her basement study

A conversation and twenty cigarettes with Katia Kapovich In her first English-language collection, Gogol in Rome (Salt Publishing, 2004), Katia Kapovich, wrestles with the trauma of dissident life. In her second, Cossacks and Bandits (Salt Publishing, 2008), she attempts to reinvent herself as an American, yet somehow [...]

Sean O’Brien reviews Tony Williams in Poetry Review

“A poet who figures in neither anthology (a matter of timing, I hope) is Tony Williams. His first book, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street, has allusiveness in common with Byrne, but in Williams’s case this is drawn into the service of a distinctive imagination obsessed withplace and history and the [...]