The Salt Road
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The Salt Road
A winter walked end to end along the old salt-carriers’ route from Droitwich to the Severn, and what is left of the people who made a living on it.
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Longform Audio has published from a first-floor room on Jamaica Street in Bristol since 2016. Sixty-one titles, all of them read by a person in a room with a microphone, and a catalogue built around writing that rewards being read slowly — literary fiction, nature writing, history and memoir.
Sixty-one titles*
Independently owned*
Human narrators only*
Eight retailers*
Bristol since 2016*
Two Avon shortlists*
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Audiobooks
Weatherglass
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Weatherglass
Forty years of a marriage, told entirely through the barometer readings a Norfolk lighthouse keeper wrote in the margins of his log.
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The Lamplighters’ War
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The Lamplighters’ War
The municipal workers who ran Britain’s blackout: 40,000 people whose job was to make a country invisible, and who were mostly forgotten by 1946.
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Hollow Bank
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Hollow Bank
A body in a drained reservoir, a village that has already agreed what happened, and a detective who has been sent there as a punishment.
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Great stories.
Real voices.
No synthesis.
Every title we have published was read by a human being who was paid for it, and we have turned down four licensing offers that were conditional on synthetic narration. It costs us money. We are going to keep doing it.
Where to find us
Retailers
- Audioway
- The Listening Room
- Spoole
- Marginalia
- Talebox
- Narrata
- Bookwave
- Longplay
Our titles are sold through eight storefronts and available to borrow through eleven UK library authorities. If your library does not stock us, ask — they can order any of our catalogue.