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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 2h
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
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Between Two Chairs
Writing a Literary Thriller
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Emma Lee @emmalee1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My review of Tim Relf's "Not Even October" @saltpublishing.com published on Everybody's Reviewing: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...
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Review by Emma Lee of "Not Even October" by Tim Relf
Not Even October is a collection that looks back on the ordinary moments that shape lives, while hoping that life still has more to offer. ...
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026
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” 👇
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Salt Publishing on track for strongest sales in a decade as strategy shift 'pays off'
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 26/09/2026
Join us for an evening with Louis de Bernières at Sheringham Little Theatre – Saturday 3rd October.
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In Conversation with Louis de Bernières
Join internationally acclaimed author Louis de Bernières at Sheringham Little Theatre for an engaging conversation about his latest book, Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps.Best known f...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 26/09/2026
Jackie Law reviews Smelling of Rooks by Louis de Bernières
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Book Review: Smelling of Rooks
I couldn’t resist asking for a review copy of Smelling of Rooks when I read its synopsis. Written by the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, it contains a collection of hi…
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 24/09/2026
@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” 👇
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Salt Publishing on track for strongest sales in a decade as strategy shift 'pays off'
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 24/09/2026
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. 👇
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Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s Big Sunday
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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
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When You Return, Who Do You Become?
The Salt writer Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s new collection moves between Japan and Britain, intimacy and estrangement, motherhood and memory. By James Hartley.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 24/09/2026
More news! Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s new novel, Big Sunday! www.thebookseller.com/rights/salt-... #BookSky
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Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s Big Sunday
Salt Publishing has acquired Big Sunday, the third novel from writer, director and comedian Andy Hamilton
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 24/09/2026
More news! Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s new novel, Big Sunday! www.thebookseller.com/rights/salt-... #BookSky
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Salt signs Andy Hamilton’s Big Sunday
Salt Publishing has acquired Big Sunday, the third novel from writer, director and comedian Andy Hamilton
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Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great news and I am not surprised. I’ve loved being published by @saltpublishing.com
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 24/09/2026
Salt on track for its best year in a decade www.thebookseller.com/news/salt-pu...
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Salt Publishing on track for strongest sales in a decade as strategy shift 'pays off'
Salt Publishing 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 submissio...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
JUDE COOK EVENTS Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Thursday afternoon 24th September Resonance FM Monday 12th October 8–9 p.m. Across the Pond US podcast Tuesday 13th October  THE LIT PATH with Jack Aldane November (date to be confirmed)
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
Cover reveal! Chris Vaughan joins the Salt list with Blitz Rats – siblings scavenging bombed London by night, one of them still chasing that world decades later. Comic, tender, devastating. 📖 Discover more – link in bio #BlitzRats #DebutNovel
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
Cover reveal! Chris Vaughan joins the Salt list with Blitz Rats – siblings scavenging bombed London by night, one of them still chasing that world decades later. Comic, tender, devastating. 📖 Discover more – link in bio #BlitzRats #DebutNovel
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
JUDE COOK EVENTS Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Thursday afternoon 24th September Resonance FM Monday 12th October 8–9 p.m. Across the Pond US podcast Tuesday 13th October  THE LIT PATH with Jack Aldane November (date to be confirmed)
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
Lucy Caldwell & Guy Ware Cork International Short Story Festival Saturday, October 17th 4.30pm, Cork Arts Theatre www.corkshortstory.net/saturday.html
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
Lovely notice in today's Daily Mail for Smelling of Rooks – ten years of Louis de Bernières's Facebook musings, now between covers. Christopher Hart calls it 'a delightful, funny, warm-hearted read – too good for Facebook'. Out now. www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...
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I cut down to a bottle of booze a day and red meat seven times a week!
In his laugh out loud new book, Louis de Bernieres collects 9 years of Facebook musings into one seriously enjoyable read.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 22/09/2026
Lovely notice in today's Daily Mail for Smelling of Rooks – ten years of Louis de Bernières's Facebook musings, now between covers. Christopher Hart calls it 'a delightful, funny, warm-hearted read – too good for Facebook'. Out now. www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...
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I cut down to a bottle of booze a day and red meat seven times a week!
In his laugh out loud new book, Louis de Bernieres collects 9 years of Facebook musings into one seriously enjoyable read.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 21/09/2026
Publication day! 🎉 Smelling of Rooks: Nine Years in the Norfolk Alps by Louis de Bernières is out today – funny, tender and gloriously unfiltered. £12.99 www.saltpublishing.com/products/sme...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 21/09/2026
Publication day! 🎉 Skinship by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana is out today – a bold, sensuous second collection drawn from her years in Japan. 'A wholly original and beguiling body of work' – Sue Burge. £10.99 www.saltpublishing.com/products/ski...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 20/09/2026
Louis de Bernières on fatherhood, Norfolk and everything in between. 'The book radiates love for his children' – The Telegraph on Smelling of Rooks, out now. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
Full interview with Louis de Bernières in the Daily Telegraph
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Carl Randall @carlrandallart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nice to see my painting Onsen on a book cover published by @saltpublishing.com. Poems by @corrintachibana.bsky.social the title comes from a Japanese loan word fusing 'skin' and 'kinship’. Like myself, the author spent many years living in Japan, and some of her work touches on those experiences.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 18/09/2026
We have news! @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social joins the Salt list with a new trilogy of Manchester-based historical crime novels. First in the series is ‘Shock City’, September 2027!
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 18/09/2026
We have news! @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social joins the Salt list with a new trilogy of Manchester-based historical crime novels. First in the series is ‘Shock City’, September 2027!
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 18/09/2026
Fanfare please – THIS has arrived! 🥳🎉 A book of sheer brilliance from @robpalk.bsky.social #booksky #saltbooks
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 18/09/2026
We have four new books coming to Salt (three novels for 2027, and short stories for 2028) – all utterly fantastic. More on all these soon; keep your eyes on The Bookseller and BookBrunch for updates. Also Q2 sales currently 58% up – and still growing. PS Don't miss our latest releases.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 17/09/2026
Our latest releases | Salt Publishing www.saltpublishing.com
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 17/09/2026
Katharine Grant's bestselling "Clinging to the Crags" featured in Lancashire Life
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Katharine Grant on growing up in one of Lancashire’s best-known families
September 2026
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Venetia Welby @vvwelby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lovely launch for @judecook.bsky.social’s new novel #TimeBeing @saltpublishing.com. Can’t wait to read
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glad I could get to lovely @owlbookshop.bsky.social , in great bookish company, for the launch of @judecook.bsky.social’s literary thriller Time Being, out now from @saltpublishing.com (and being read on the train…) — thanks, all✊
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great night at the Owl Bookshop Kentish Town for the launch of my old mate @judecook.bsky.social and his latest novel published by @saltpublishing.com
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today is publication day for TIME BEING, my first novel in six years. It's been another long and winding road, so thank you to everyone who's supported me, especially @saltpublishing.com for their belief & dedication from the start. Available from all good bookshops now!
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 07/09/2026
🥳🎉🥂Publication day! Time Being by @judecook.bsky.social is out today – an existential thriller from the author of Byron Easy. A philosophy professor is found dead. Her colleague knows more than she's letting on. £10.99, paperback. #SaltPublishing #Booksky
Publication day. Time Being by Jude Cook is out today – an existential thriller from the author of Byron Easy. A philosophy professor is found dead. Her colleague knows more than she's letting on.

£10.99, paperback. #SaltPublishing
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Event alert! My third novel TIME BEING is published tomorrow (7th Sept) by the wonderful @saltpublishing.com. Do please come along to the TIME BEING launch at @owlbookshop.bsky.social Kentish Town on Wed 9th Sept. All welcome. There will be books, wine, and maybe homemade cookies. See you there!
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me · 02/09/2026
Late Entrants
Late Entrants

Later in a bad evening, low skies
make a white sign. Nothing
prinks or stoops in black pines
by the pale field where I search the lines,
clamped in so cold my ears ring.

And here’s the plume above dark ice
that means a fox is watching me alone,
ghosting its gauze of winter
as I step through all she won’t enter
silent as stone.
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me · 02/09/2026
Your Mongrel Sea
Your Mongrel Sea

Your mongrel sea is picked with light
above silent chalk acres.
Below each wave all’s lost from sight
inside a secondary night
whose cold is not the cold of spite.
A hard world slinks towards the light
and the shore’s wide breakers.

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New short story, "Weather Reports", can be read online @saltpublishing.com in their House magazine. My story riffs off Jacques Demy's 1964 film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", but you don't need to know the film to appreciate the story. Enjoy! www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
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Weather Reports
by Andrew Hook You shouldn’t spend all your money on a real expensive straightjacket —Shep Gordon November The average temperature will be 8°C with a high of 10 and a low of 7. Generally cloudy, most ...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 01/09/2026
‘Weather Reports’ – a new short story by Andrew Hook | House Magazine
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Weather Reports
by Andrew Hook You shouldn’t spend all your money on a real expensive straightjacket —Shep Gordon November The average temperature will be 8°C with a high of 10 and a low of 7. Generally cloudy, most ...
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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I loved Corrin-Tachibana’s use of Japanese forms such as the haibun and zuihitsu. This is a searingly honest, atmospheric, and original collection that I’ll be returning to again and again. Published by @saltpublishing.com
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you so much @catherineredford.bsky.social an early reader of Skinship, my new poetry collection, out with @saltpublishing.com on Sept 21st!
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 31/08/2026
A limited selection from our backlist at 40% off, while stocks last. #BookSky #GrabABargain #SaltPublishing
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Book Sale – 40% Off Backlist Titles | Salt Publishing
Discover discounted literary fiction, poetry and short stories from Salt's backlist – 40% off selected titles while stocks last.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 31/08/2026
Louis de Bernières, best known for the wartime romance novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, will appear at Sheringham Little Theatre on Saturday, October 3.
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Acclaimed author to share stories of Norfolk life at theatre
An acclaimed author is set to share stories drawn from nearly a decade of life in rural Norfolk.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 29/08/2026
A Calling You Can’t Leave
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A Calling You Can’t Leave
What exactly is an independent publisher?
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Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Sealeychallenge 2026, Day 27/31: Making the Wedding dress by Jackie Wills "I'm learning silk's tendency to fray/but mostly how it catches light" From @saltpublishing.com
Bover cover with collage of women and ladders
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 27/08/2026
New story by Bill Broady in House Magazine. A wet day at the races, every favourite beaten – then a man who knows everything and weighs nothing tells how a Yorkshireman broke the bank at Monte Carlo. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-... #SaltPublishing
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The man who broke the bank
by Bill Broady Horses for the final race were being led into the paddock but we did not want to see them. It was starting to rain so we ducked behind the grandstand where, in near silence, thousands o...
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Damer @virelia-world.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We often forget that authors are people too. They're driven by a need for readers, the search for some kind of recognition and the desire 'to make it'. Scammers know it though. And they hope they will get an author at a low moment that will sway them towards the scam. Keep that in mind.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 26/08/2026
A few months back, hundreds of people were approached by ‘recruiters’ at Salt offering new editorial positions. Now hundreds of our authors are being affected by offers of US editions, translations, film & TV deals and more… www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-... #BookSky #SaltPublishing
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A very flattering email
by Chris Hamilton-Emery Someone wrote to me a few days ago to say that my poems have an abrasive musicality, and that they were struck by the tension between spectacle and reality in my work. They sai...
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Anne Cater @annerandomthings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls #VirtualBookTour #TheMaternalElement @katenicholls1.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @randomthingstours #BookReview randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
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The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls #VirtualBookTour #TheMaternalElement @kate_nicholls_official_ @saltpublishing @randomthingstours #BookReview
Siberia 1833. Forty-one-year-old Maria Mendeleeva is enduring her seventeenth pregnancy. Her husband Ivan has lost his sight, and her brot...
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