Salt imprint: 113 books

by Jane Holland
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Jane Holland's second collection, Boudicca & Co., is a provocative and vibrant exploration of women and their roles in society. The perennial themes of motherhood, love and sex jostle for space here with elegies, poetry written for performance, and Celtic-inspired mythological pieces. Richly allusive,...

Dead Funny: Encore

More Horror Stories by Comedians

by James Acaster, Clare Ferguson Walker, Toby Hadoke
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy. Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this second exploration of the relationship...
by Simon Okotie
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a series of disappearances: of his colleague, Marguerite; of Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s transport advisor, whose disappearance...
by Tom Vowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013

Winner of the 2011 Edge Hill Readers' Prize The characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is not a place easily escaped from, as it pursues them with startling, sometimes horrifying, consequences.A writer...
by Stefan Mohamed
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

In this one-off short story set in the Bitter Sixteen universe, everyone's favourite wise-cracking beagle Daryl gets a slightly more violent Christmas than he bargained for…
by Meike Ziervogel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Irish Times Books Of The Year 2013 Observer Books Of The Year 2013 Guardian Readers' Books Of The Year 2013 Short Listed For Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2013 Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love, and then themselves.In this daring...
by Kirsty Logan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

Winner of the Scott Prize Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature...
by Paul McVeigh
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads 2016 Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize ELLE Best Books of 2015 The...

Vault

An Anti-Novel

by David Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war’s close, and disturbed by what he has left behind on the Continent, he is compelled to return, dispensing...
by Cassandra Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

In contemporary America, an un-named college student sets out on an obsessive journey of discovery to collect and record the life-stories of total strangers. The interviews that follow have echoes of another, far more famous literary journey, undertaken long ago and in another world.Drawing on the...
by Frank Walford
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Banned for over 30 years — Frank Walford’s classic work of horror is available again. “Twisted Clay is a gruesome study of progressive insanity, but the study is obviously subordinate to a desire to excite and horrify.” —H.M. Green She loved … and killed … both men and...

Dead Funny

Horror Stories by Comedians

by Robin Ince, Mitch Benn, Katy Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some of the brightest lights in UK comedy. Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this unique exploration of...
by Stefan Mohamed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London’s protector, he’s finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So it’s almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into...
by Stefan Mohamed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017

Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the superpowered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And...
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