Join author @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and myself live online this Thursday 16th April at 7pm BST when he'll be talking about and reading fromhis cracking new book, and much else besides. Free, and all welcome. If you'd like a link email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Happy publication day to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social – Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books is available from all good bookstores now! 🥳🎉🥂

MicroMonday #52 The Last Shaman by Livi Michael In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices. Over three nights in July a special r…

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MicroMonday #52 The Last Shaman by Livi Michael In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices. Over three nights in July a special r…

The Last Shaman by Livi Michael | new in Fictive Dream

Ray Holt launders money for a Manchester gang. He's also stealing from them – and has convinced himself that makes him the good guy. Darker With the Day by Trevor Mark Thomas: Northern Noir at its sharpest. Coming soon from Salt. 🖤

‘It’s a short drive and now I’m parking up next to the Beeston and Sheringham Commons, just off the coastal A149. It’s a sultry Norfolk afternoon, the kind that feels like an endless Sunday...’

Ray Holt launders money for a Manchester gang. He's also stealing from them – and has convinced himself that makes him the good guy. Darker With the Day by Trevor Mark Thomas: Northern Noir at its sharpest. Coming soon from Salt. 🖤

‘It’s a short drive and now I’m parking up next to the Beeston and Sheringham Commons, just off the coastal A149. It’s a sultry Norfolk afternoon, the kind that feels like an endless Sunday...’

Huge thanks to Eithne Farry for her review of @nicholasroyle.bsky.social new book, Finders, Keepers, in The Simple Things Magazine.

We have more amazing signings coming your way in 2027.

I, Lolita, Vesna Main A writer travels to Paris to face her oldest friend – and her silence in response to a book of four hundred blank pages. Formally brilliant, quietly devastating

When Narra launches The Novel – four hundred blank pages – her literary circle is struck dumb. A woman who has built her life around language, now faced with the one text she cannot read.

I, Lolita by Vesna Main. Coming April 2027 from Salt.
Discover more: tinyurl.com/mrvwzzsc

I, Lolita, Vesna Main A writer travels to Paris to face her oldest friend – and her silence in response to a book of four hundred blank pages. Formally brilliant, quietly devastating

When Narra launches The Novel – four hundred blank pages – her literary circle is struck dumb. A woman who has built her life around language, now faced with the one text she cannot read.

I, Lolita by Vesna Main. Coming April 2027 from Salt.
Discover more: tinyurl.com/mrvwzzsc

Thanks for this boost from my fab publisher @saltpublishing.com — I hope you listen to this episode of History's Heroes and 😉 preorder my novel, Wash, out in May. Wash and Em were noble folks, and we could all use some of that, right? www.saltpublishing.com/products/was...

History's Heroes - Washington and Emily Roebling: Superstars of Suspension - BBC Sounds Can a married couple take on the greatest engineering feat of their day?

Disaster strikes when Washington Roebling is building a landmark suspension bridge connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn. Can his wife Emily help him deliver an impossible engineering feat?
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Oh thank you SO much!

“There are as many way to collect books as there are books to collect.” #finderskeepers #nicholasroyle One of the best things for a reader is when a favourite author produces a new book (or at least I think so!) I was therefore very excited to discover that Salt Publishing were bringing out a new no…

On the Ramblings today my thoughts on the third in a series of books about books by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social from @saltpublishing.com Hint: it’s brilliant! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/t...

The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’ - The Jewish Chronicle This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel real

The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’

This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel real ...

By David Bennun

The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’ - The Jewish Chronicle This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel real

The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’

This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel real ...

By David Bennun

The best new books to read in April, from UFOs to Muriel Spark Martin Chilton shares his reading highlights for April

‘Avid readers and book-collecting enthusiasts will find much to enjoy in Nicholas Royle’s Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books (Salt)’ —Martin Chilton, The Independent

Salt Publishing – Award-Winning Independent Literary Publisher, UK Celebrating 27 years of independent British publishing. Explore award-winning literary and genre fiction from Salt – the home of beautiful books you won't forget. Browse our titles.

Our best annual sales for five years – up 20% on last year. Fifth consecutive year of growth. Thank you to every reader and bookseller who made it happen. 📖 saltpublishing.com

A poem from my collection The Death Poems: Songs, Visions, Meditations published by @saltpublishing.com

Is Nabokov responsible for Epstein? by Vesna Main At a recent dinner party, a guest mentioned that Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted paedophile, admired Nabokov’s novel Lolita, owning a first edition. Clearly, the guest said, Epstein would...

New in House Magazine — Vesna Main considers the impact of Nabokov on Epstein

Rubbish May Be Shot Here, 1937 by Guy Ware For the second time this month, we are waiting for an ambulance. Last time, Diana didn't actually say I told you so because she didn't have to. We both knew why I was there, head on the fl...

New in House Magazine — a new short story by Guy Ware: Rubbish May Be Shot Here, 1937

Paratextual Activity by Nicholas Royle In 1991 I attended a launch event in London for a debut novel, A Matter of Life and Sex. The book was a handsome hardback with Gilbert & George jacket illustrations, the author a...

New in House Magazine — Nicholas Royle explores Oscar Moore’s A Matter of Life and Sex

Is Nabokov responsible for Epstein? by Vesna Main At a recent dinner party, a guest mentioned that Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted paedophile, admired Nabokov’s novel Lolita, owning a first edition. Clearly, the guest said, Epstein would...

New in House Magazine — Vesna Main considers the impact of Nabokov on Epstein

Rubbish May Be Shot Here, 1937 by Guy Ware For the second time this month, we are waiting for an ambulance. Last time, Diana didn't actually say I told you so because she didn't have to. We both knew why I was there, head on the fl...

New in House Magazine — a new short story by Guy Ware: Rubbish May Be Shot Here, 1937

Paratextual Activity by Nicholas Royle In 1991 I attended a launch event in London for a debut novel, A Matter of Life and Sex. The book was a handsome hardback with Gilbert & George jacket illustrations, the author a...

New in House Magazine — Nicholas Royle explores Oscar Moore’s A Matter of Life and Sex

The Sunday Poem: Gravity by Tobias Hill | The Observer How can there have been a time when thisstill lay undiscovered: light fallingthrough the trees, and the first leaves fallingall at once into the cold evening,leaves through light in endless gravity?By...

The Sunday Poem – Gravity by Tobias Hill
The Observer

Daylighters by Zoë Apostolides

Something is wrong in Putney. It's 1974, and the light is changing.

Daylighters by Zoë Apostolides – literary horror that gets under your skin and stays there.

Coming in 2027 from Salt. 🕯️

Daylighters by Zoë Apostolides

Something is wrong in Putney. It's 1974, and the light is changing.

Daylighters by Zoë Apostolides – literary horror that gets under your skin and stays there.

Coming in 2027 from Salt. 🕯️