Booktrust Double for Salt Short Stories

We are thrilled and delighted that , the highly-respected charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to enjoy books, has selected two Salt books in its Ten Short Story Collections from British Writers.

Tania Hershman’s White Road and Other Stories, together with Words from a Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie, sit [...]

#3DaySuperSavers — 75% Off Briggs, Brontë, Saul & Williams (Offer expires 11th Feb)

Get 75% off these four titles in our UK shop today! Offer expires 11 February 2011.

Simply use coupon code: HYE8WR3X when in the checkout. Offer applies while stocks last, plus get FREE shipping in the UK. (Why not buy them all for just £10.49 and save a massive £31.47!)

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Matthew Sweeney’s The Night Post reviewed in The Irish Times

In Matthew Sweeney’s freshly selected volume, The Night Post (Salt Publishing, 173pp, £12.99) we get the sense from the opening pages of an edgier habit of speech: sharply knowing, well informed, brimming with opinions. “I have seen through all. / I am excess”: Sweeney’s early work, especially, is marked by a kind of inspired [...]

Anna Woodford discovers her past

Unknown Soldiers

by Anna Woodford

 

I grew up with two tiny sepia photographs of my great-grandparents Jozef and Marja Magenheim. He is upright in his Polish army uniform, she has dark eyes and looks like Snow White: had Snow White been in her fifties. My great-grandparents were Jewish and died in the holocaust. [...]

#CoverDesignBlitz launching our new romance imprint Embrace Books!

This week was the week we began work on our new romance imprint, Embrace Books. Lots of fun and a super challenge for the Cover Factory to get to grips with the first four romances, each dramatically different in style from period dramas to suspense stories and plenty of sexual tension along the way. [...]

Tony Williams would like to send you a Christmas message

It’s Chriiiiisssstmas from Tony Williams on Vimeo.

Tony’s book is just out in paperback with a whopping discount in our online store and free postage to boot. We’ll pop it in a sack, drop it on a Salty sleigh and whiz it over to you…

Head over to Tony’s grotto now: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844719266.htm [...]

On choosing

“What really worries me, most of all, is, it’s not writers, it’s readers, because this whole crap about ‘It’s Gutenberg.’ You know, the thing is, that Gutenberg put books on the shelves, the digital revolution is gonna take books off the shelves. So how’re you gonna find them, if you don’t know what [...]

Maria Takolander shortlisted for the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Awards

Maria Takolander has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award in the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Awards.

Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award Peter Boyle for Apocrypha Vagabond Press Jennifer Maiden for Pirate Rain Giramondo Publishing Company Les Murray for Taller When Prone Black Inc. Maria Takolander for Ghostly Subjects [...]

The fifteenth reprinting of Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories

Every now and again, a book comes along for a publisher which captures the popular imagination and becomes a bestseller. Today we sent Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories off to press for its fifteenth reprinting in two years. The book remains one of Salt’s bestselling titles and, by any measure, [...]

Listen to the #SaltFlashMob from AudioBoo

You can hear Jen’s AudioBoo of the Salt FlashMob. Not a huge turnout, but we weren’t expecting a massive show. Saturday’s are for family and relaxing after all. We had a quality turnout and met up with Tim Wells after the event for a drink in the bar of the Festival Hall. Lots [...]