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.
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@saltpublishing.com@saltpublishing.comA Scholion on a Bitcoin Novel Tibor Fischer's ‘My Bags Are Big’, the Houellebecq question and the difference between Bitcoin and crypto
@saltpublishing.com‘Taking my hat off to millinery: when an historical novelist puts the art at the heart of her new book – Michelle Lovric’
@saltpublishing.comLouis 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.’
@saltpublishing.comLouis de Bernières feature in Norfolk Magazine 🥳
@saltpublishing.comIt's VOTING TIME! Come and cast your vote for Louis de Bernières’ Smelling of Rooks!
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@saltpublishing.comReposted by @saltpublishing.comOut 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. 🪶
@saltpublishing.comOut 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. 🪶
@saltpublishing.com💥 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!
@judecook.bsky.socialReposted by @saltpublishing.comA 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
@emmalee1.bsky.socialReposted by @saltpublishing.comMy review of Tim Relf's "Not Even October" @saltpublishing.com published on Everybody's Reviewing: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...
@thebookseller.comReposted by @saltpublishing.comICYMI: @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” 👇
@jacqbetula.bsky.socialReposted by @saltpublishing.comThis should get lots of attention when it is published next year. I was privilaged to read the novel some time ago, thanks to @vesnamain.bsky.social
@saltpublishing.comJoin us for an evening with Louis de Bernières at Sheringham Little Theatre – Saturday 3rd October.
@saltpublishing.comJackie Law reviews Smelling of Rooks by Louis de Bernières
@thebookseller.comReposted by @saltpublishing.com@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” 👇
@thebookseller.comReposted by @saltpublishing.comSalt 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. 👇
@madridlitmag.bsky.socialReposted by @saltpublishing.comAlexandra Corrin-Tachibana has just published Skinship, her second collection with @saltpublishing — exploring Japan, Britain, intimacy, motherhood, memory and belonging.
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#Japan #Japanlife #poetry
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@saltpublishing.comReposted by @saltpublishing.comMore news! Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s new novel, Big Sunday!
@saltpublishing.comHumorous fiction – a state of the nation novel. Large cast of characters colliding or not colliding on the way to a stadium.