The Salvage
‘A gothic tale with a powerful sense of place and an eerie atmosphere’ Sunday Times
$34.21
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
‘The Salvage is a novel to keep you up all night. Anbara Salam is a master of suspense’ Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder
‘A rich, gothic mystery, The Salvage has a moody, salt-drenched atmosphere, and layers of intrigue that span centuries. I couldn’t put it down’ Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author of A Double Life
It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trail-blazing marine archaeologist, has travelled to Cairnroch, a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399806640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399806645 |
| Author: | Anbara Salam |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Baskerville |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 51mm x 217mm x 135mm |
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Critics Review
A gothic tale with a powerful sense of place and an eerie atmosphere. * The Sunday Times, Best New Historical Fiction Round-up *A heady, entertaining brew… asks questions about guilt, superstition, desire, power, and historical inheritance. * Scotland on Sunday *With her signature wit and unflinching eye for historical detail Anbara Salam brings a remote Scottish island chillingly to life. The Salvage plumbs the icy depths of memory and colonialism and explores whether love can survive in the frostiest of outposts – Francine Toon, bestselling author of PINE and BLUFF
A rich, gothic mystery, The Salvage has a moody, salt-drenched atmosphere, and layers of intrigue that span centuries. I couldn’t put it down
– Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author of A DOUBLE LIFEAn atmospheric gothic … a driven heroine … An unusual and gripping read * Historical Novels Society *As chilly as the icy sea, as haunting as the prospects of ghosts, The Salvage is a novel to keep you up all night. Anbara Salam is a master of suspense. Be careful when you start this book, because you won’t want to stop – Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of THE CHILD FINDER and the forthcoming THE TALKING BONEAn immersive Gothic ambience and a sense of bitter cold so vivid that we can feel it chill our own bones as we read * The Herald *Strong on atmosphere, sustaining a mood of sombre, oppressive suspense which is highly effective … Salam scores highly for conjuring up an immersive Gothic ambience and a sense of bitter cold so vivid that we can feel it chill our own bones as we read – Scottish HeraldAbout The Author
Anbara Salam
Anbara Salam is the Palestinian-Scottish author of Things Bright and Beautiful and Belladonna. Her novel Hazardous Spirits was shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards. She has a PhD in Theology and now lives in Oxford.
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