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Out today. 🌉 Wash by Erica Wagner – published 18 May. War. Struggle. Queer love. Eroticism. And a monument for the ages. A boy in rural Pennsylvania. A young man at college. A soldier in a dreadful war. An engineer who built the Brooklyn Bridge. His name is Washington Roebling. 'A gorgeous and moving novel of resilience, ingenuity, and love.' – Min Jin Lee 'Immersive, moving, intensely romantic.' – Tahmima Anam One of The Observer's 'Fiction to look out for in 2026'. Paperback | 288pp | £10.99 Link in bio. #Wash #EricaWagner #SaltPublishing #PublicationDay #LiteraryFiction #BrooklynBridge #BookstagramUK #IndiePublisher #NewBooks #ReadIndie

‘I’m sitting in the happy rustling quiet of a library, reading. The text is part memoir, part biography. For many years it was lost, or made to vanish, in the depths of an archive; it reappeared in circumstances which are themselves a little mysterious…’ Terrific feature in The Observer today.

📖 Roch Tales – new short stories about Rochdale We're delighted to share news of Roch Tales, a set of new short story commissions on the theme of Rochdale, performed live at the Ukrainian Club, Rochdale on 9 July – alongside a new sound installation by artist Maryanne Royle. Featuring work from a wonderful line-up of writers: ✍️ Abi Hynes ✍️ Rosie Garland ✍️ Reshma Ruia ✍️ Benjamin Judge ✍️ Nicholas Royle ✍️ David Gaffney Plus an open mic to close the evening. If you're in Rochdale or nearby – or know someone who is – we'd love to see you there. Please do share with friends and fellow story-lovers. 🎟 Booking link in bio, or search 'Roch Tales' on Eventbrite. #RochTales #ShortStories #Rochdale #LiteraryEvents #SaltPublishing #IndependentPublishing #UkrainianClub #NewWriting

A wonderful launch for @christiana_spens ’s superb novella The Colony at @owl.bookshop last night in Kentish Town. Christiana was introduced by her agent Tom at @cull_and_co_literary_agency before the party moved onto the venerable @thepineapplepub 🥂The Colony is published @saltpublishing and is out now!

The Observer Book Club with Erica Wagner Erica Wagner Consulting Editor Tom Gatti Literary Editor Join the Observer Book Club for an evening with Erica Wagner, discussing her acclaimed new novel Wash, in conversation with Tom Gatti. At the centre of Wash is Washington Roebling, the man who oversaw the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge - but Wagner’s novel is less a historical reconstruction than an intimate act of imagination. Moving through memory rather than chronology, it traces a life shaped by a brutal father, war, illness and a great love, asking what it means to spend your life fulfilling a dream that was never entirely your own. Never more poignantly told, Wash is a richly layered portrait of ambition, marriage and inheritance, and of the emotional cost behind one of the modern world’s great engineering feats. Wagner will discuss the decades-long fascination that led her to Roebling’s story, the relationship between fact and fiction, and how the lives we live are shaped as much by longing as by history. Thursday, 4 June 2026 18:30 - 19:30 22 Berners Street #Wash #EricaWagner #ObserverBookClub #TheObserver #TomGatti #BookEvent #LondonLiteraryEvents #AuthorTalk #InConversation

Before I Go by Tim Pears Shep Meadows is ninety-seven, four foot twelve, and unintelligible to almost everyone. He has lived all his life on the same Oxford estate. Every morning he walks. He watches. He sees more than anyone. Earlier this year his great-niece Angel died, and no one has explained how. Now Shep is going to tell us about her – and about all the lives in which she nestled, like a little bird. A wise, tender, devastating new novel from the Hawthornden Prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves and the West Country Trilogy. Coming from Salt, 3 May 2027. #CoverReveal #TimPears #BeforeIGo #SaltPublishing #LiteraryFiction #IndependentPublishing #BookishCommunity #Bookstagram

In @bookbrunch.news today. We're delighted to announce that Tim Pears has joined the Salt list. Read more /page/article-detail/salt-signs-tim-pears-new-novel-before-i-go/

Dr Emilia Telese, artist, broadcaster and academic, recorded Making the Wedding Dress on the seafront at Grótta, a lighthouse at the end of Reykjavík. Behind her is the glacier of Snaefellsnes, made famous by Jules Verne. Her most recent work focuses on glaciers that once covered most of Iceland. Making the Wedding Dress is the title poem from Jackie Wills’ seventh collection published by Salt on June 14. Filming was done by Steingrimur Dúi Másson. @steingrimur_dui

📖 TWO NEW BOOKS – LAUNCH EVENT 📖 Join us for an evening with Martina Evans and Jackie Wills, celebrating two remarkable new poetry collections: ✨ Drunken Driving by Martina Evans (Carcanet Poetry) – a Poetry Book Society Choice ✨ Making the Wedding Dress by Jackie Wills (Salt) 🗓 Wednesday 24 June, 7.45pm 📍 Westgate Chapel, 92a High Street, Lewes BN7 1XH 🎟 £8 advance via the LLL website | £10 on the door Book now at Brought to you by Lewes Live Lit, with support from East Sussex Arts Partners and Arts Council England. #PoetryLaunch #MartinaEvans #JackieWills #SaltPublishing #CarcanetPoetry #LewesLiveLit #UKPoetry #LiteraryEvents #Lewes

Wonderful feature on the Literary Hub by Christiana Spens on the background to her hit novel, The Colony. Read now: /mysterious-isolated-and-seductive-the-map-of-literary-islands-that-inspired-my-novel/

★ Irish Times review ★ 'An insightful study of the marriage of Emma Hoffman, a successful writer who "sees it all", and her Park Avenue doctor husband … a morality tale in living a lie … sporadically moving and insightful.' — Kevin Gildea, The Irish Times, on Something Might Fall by David Flusfeder New York, 1970. On the surface, a perfect couple – but he pretends not to notice the glittery bright darkness that surrounds them. Order from Salt – link in bio. #SomethingMightFall #DavidFlusfeder #SaltPublishing #LiteraryFiction #IrishTimes #IndiePublishing #BookstagramUK #NewYorkNovel

★ FT review ★ 'Closely observed, achingly felt, moment by moment, like still lives that aren't still … Readers enter her fiction almost physically, as it is so solid and majestic, rather like the great bridge itself.' — John Sedgwick, Financial Times, on Wash by Erica Wagner A soulful novel of Washington Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, and Emily, the wife who finished it. Order from Salt – link in bio. Read the full FT review – /content/40b96131-843e-41d2-9df9-d6a0c0643af5. #Wash #EricaWagner #SaltPublishing #LiteraryFiction #BrooklynBridge #FTReview #IndiePublishing #BookstagramUK