Books published by Salt Publishing

The much-anticipated first novel from the author of the outstanding short story collection The Alphabet of Birds. In 1986 a young South African film student in London finds the first of three reels of a film made by a group of Jewish filmmakers in Germany in the 1930s. He sets off for Berlin to find the two missing reels.

A man boards a train, hoping to see the daughter he has heard nothing from for seven years. As he travels towards his destination, he restlessly revisits the events that blew apart their seemingly perfect world.

He can become any book, any combination of words - every thought, act and expression that has ever been, or ever will be, written. Now 800 years old, John wants to tell his story.

Twenty-three-year-old Vanessa is experiencing frightening visions. A year out of university, marooned in a quietly deflating relationship, she can't work out where her passion and creativity went. Then her best friend Mark, who vanished without a trace seven years ago, reappears, not one day older.

When Nikki and Rob uncover childminder Bobbi's secret everything changes. Bobbi has a child-shaped hole in her life her 'silver fox' lover can't fill. Troubled young couple, Kim and Connor are battling with social services to keep their baby, Jade - but they needn't worry, Bobbi soon arrives to help solve all their problems.

This daring, experimental novel addresses the existential dilemma of location, how the regret of a choice not made may overpower the satisfaction of one taken. In his debut, Simon Kinch explores the nature of longing and unfulfilment, romance and rejection, freedom and opposition.

This is a collection of twenty short stories of different lengths and written in a variety of styles. Main writes about characters whose passion borders on obsession and who are seeking love and companionship but are doomed to remain alone, with their sense of personal failure as the only company.

Award-winning writer Alice Thompson's compelling new novel is a story of transformation; an exploration of the shifting borderlands between imagination and reality.

Fourth collection from award-winning poet Luke Kennard departs from previous outings in its scale and range while retaining his trademark wit and humour.

The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're obliged to live in; a book about being pulled both ways while belonging to neither camp.

A generous selection of work by Miodrag Pavlovic. He is the third of the Serbian triumvirate of Popa, Lalic and Pavlovic which transformed Serb poetry in the 1950s. Pavlovic has been translated and published in English in book form and in pamphlets in Canada, but never before in from a British publisher.

The Ophelia Letters explores the interaction between self and place, and the way the normal can become strange and freighted with magic.

'Selby's ringing titles evoke not just a subject but a sensibility, and her versatile forms and deftly run-on lines very persuasively re-enact the thrill of sense experience and the shape of thought.' Chandrahas Choudhury

Letters to the Sky examines themes of friendship, nostalgia, sadness, self-adornment, identity, hope and change. Ethereal, romantic and feminine, the poems draw on the aesthetic beauty of nature to convey emotional intimacies. Deeply visual, filled with colour and decorativeness, this collection celebrates the poet's love of London, fashion and art.

People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath, this masterly new collection from Alexander Hutchison, they can find it in many forms and registers. Power and beauty, mischief and humour. Longer poems mix satire with tender affection. Others offer everything from solar loops to red-throated divers.

This stunning debut finds poetry in the dark underbelly of history and explores what it means to trust and to betray, to belong and be lost, to love and to remember. A courageous take on the violence and beauty of life past and present, this book celebrates what really endures: the lure of power and solace of home.

Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

A unique and indispensable guide to writing the short story. A collection of 26 specially commissioned essays from well-published short story writers who are also prize winners in the toughest short story competitions in the English language.

Aaron McCollough's Double Venus meditates on social politics, personal politics, and the exchange between them. It concerns itself with the many manifestations of desire circulating within cultures of plenty. In doing so, Double Venus also adds to a tradition committed to socio-ethical practice based, in the final instance, on love.

The Wildflowers of Baltimore is a collection of stories about young men on desperate searches both physical-for a missing child in the woods, for a loved one at the end of the world--and spiritual-for meaning, for understanding of how to be a man, how to live.

Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic; not closure, but recognition."

Richard Hamilton had just graduated from Oxford University with first class honours when he joined the 1935-36 Oxford University Arctic Expedition to North East Land (Nordhauslandet) in the Svalbard archipelago.

This unique collection features chefs on poetry and poets on food. Contributors include top UK poets, chefs and food writers. Designed to celebrate the theme of 'food',as part of `National Poetry Day', it would work very well as a gift for any occasion. Perfectly appropriate for armchair or kitchen.

This collection of poems is notable for its variety: both traditional and experimental, it covers ground from academic satire to the history of industrialization to David Bowie. It will appeal to audiences across the spectrum, from academics to fans of poetry slams.

A collection of 10 years' work, in part lineated or syllabic but mostly in clustered prose, which investigates ontological echoes of the environmental condition of new scarcity, amid a wealth of inroads. The hoped-for terrain is where its own scarcity on the ground can set seed.

Mahmutovic offers a unique view of the Balkan crisis and the history of displacement through the eyes of the most marginal and neglected of war victims.

Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see Where You Live.

Intensely musical with daring use of image and idea, this debut introduces a poet charting her own path through language.

Prepare to enter a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where elephants squat in living rooms, plastic ducks fall from the skies and even the rabbits are vicious. Jonathan Pinnock's unashamedly entertaining fictions explore what happens when the macabre and the absurd crash headlong into everyday life.