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Hi, I’m Richard Salsbury, a writer of novels and short fiction. My novels Mute and Gifts of Anger are available now. I’m also co-editor (along with Helen Salsbury) of the environmental writing collection Wild Seas, Wilder Cities.

Cover of Mute by Richard Salsbury, featuring a mechanical pencil being driven through the screen of a mobile phone.
Cover of Gifts of Anger by Richard Salsbury, featuring a very worn-out and stained old armchair.
Cover of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, featuring a city skyline, and beneath the waves, a meadow of seagrass and a seahorse.

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  • Cover of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, featuring a city skyline, and beneath the waves, a meadow of seagrass and a seahorse.
    Wild Seas, Wilder Cities Audiobook

    The audiobook version of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is now available. Featuring 50 different narrators, from professional actors to ordinary members of the public, it was recorded at Casemates Studios and represents a chorus of voices in support of the environment. Check it out at the Pens of the Earth website here.

  • Cover of Gifts of Anger by Richard Salsbury, featuring a very worn-out and stained old armchair.
    Gifts of Anger

    My second novel, Gifts of Anger, is officially published today!

  • The logo for Portsmouth Book Fest.
    Short Story Workshop

    I’m teaching a short story workshop for Portsmouth BookFest on 1st March. First-timers and experienced writers alike are welcome. Tickets are only £5.50, available here.

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