The year is 1995 and Britain like the rest of Europe has been under German occupation for approaching 50 years. Since that fateful day back in 1945, when the Luftwaffe dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the island of Cyprus, the Nazi’s have...
<p>David Rose's debut novel <em>Vault</em> won high praise upon its publication in 2011. Now, Salt is pleased to present Rose's long-awaited collection of short stories â€" a series of captivating tales that showcase his exceptional...
This is a short story. Dragonfire is the name of the game, a new, totally immersive computer game set in a fantasy world. Figurative dragons lurk in hidden places, the stakes are high, and losing the game means losing your life - or does it? This is ...
A romantic drama set in London, this is a contemporary short story about the uncertain business of living. On the knife's edge between love and tragedy, Adam Reid is a young doctor who finds that mending broken lives is not a vocation for the faint-h...
Becky loves Sam, but there's a pretty young teacher who's moved into town, and Sam is charmed. So are all the other boys. Now what? This is a rather evil short story set in the context of a young adult romance....
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life -- mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer -- with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, wh...
Standing Orders is an inspirational, contemporary tale of hope and friendship in the face of overwhelming odds. While in his final year at university, Tom Kettlewell's relationship with his girlfriend ends tragically and changes the way he views the ...
How three fingers belong to one gnarled hand, so here do the tales to be told:When Maecidion dies, the reading of the will is an outrage. Irion, the dead necromancer's kin, watches as coveted heirlooms are given to his enemies. Himself no stranger to...
Almost eight decades after the seminal conference that gave us the G7, World Bank, IMF and J.M. Keynes' momentous 'money creation' process, the lethal unintended consequences are about to be unleashed. Just one man, driven by loathing of the entire b...
Squire Gifford has a problem. His daughter Charity is dallying with a young lad from the village, a most unsuitable match. So he sends her to work as a chambermaid to the recently widowed Baroness Smallwood, Lady Ethel Philip. Secretly, he hopes that...