Books
Four novels and a story collection, all set within a few miles of the Dee estuary.
The Salt Line
The fifth book, and the one I was circling in all the others.
The Salt Line
A novel
Elin Marrow
Published 2026
The Salt Line
- Publisher
- Harrowgate Press
- Published
- 2026
- Extent
- 348 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-8382-4471-9
When the sea wall at Vennall fails for the third time in a decade, the parish is offered a choice it has no way to make: hold the line at a cost nobody can carry, or let the water take three hundred acres and everything standing on them.
Ada Rees comes home to argue for the wall. Her brother has already signed the papers that give it up. Between them is a farm their grandfather drained by hand, a debt neither will name, and eleven weeks until the spring tides.
Signed and dated firsts from Cobbold & Wren, Chester, who post worldwide.
The earlier books
Cold Harbour
Elin Marrow
Harrowgate Press · 2023
A pilot boat goes out in weather it should not have gone out in, and the manifest it carried is missing. Winner of the Encore Award.
Nine Bridges
Elin Marrow
Harrowgate Press · 2020
Two sisters inherit a haulage firm, its debts, and the crossings it was built to serve. Shortlisted for the Portico Prize.
A Field of Small Weathers
Elin Marrow
Harrowgate Press · 2017
Eleven stories, most of them set within a mile of the same saltmarsh. Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
The Wrackline
Elin Marrow
Fennick Books · 2015
The first novel, written across four years of evenings. Out of print for six years and reissued with a new afterword. Betty Trask Award.
Translations
Nineteen territories. Marguerite Bell at Pike & Quill handles all rights outside the UK and Commonwealth.
| Language | Title | Publisher | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| French | La Ligne de sel | Éditions Cormoran | The Salt Line, Cold Harbour, Nine Bridges |
| German | Die Salzlinie | Herrenberg Verlag | The Salt Line, Cold Harbour |
| Dutch | De zoutlijn | Wildeboer | All five |
| Italian | La linea del sale | Edizioni Rovere | The Salt Line, Cold Harbour |
| Spanish | La línea de sal | Marea Alta | Cold Harbour, Nine Bridges |
| Japanese | 塩の線 | Hakusen Shobō | Cold Harbour |
| Norwegian | Saltlinjen | Kveldsol Forlag | The Salt Line, Cold Harbour, The Wrackline |
| Polish | Linia soli | Wydawnictwo Przypływ | Cold Harbour |
On the books
Marrow writes weather the way other novelists write dialogue — as the thing that carries the argument.
There is not a sentence here that has not been earned. A novel about drainage that reads like a thriller about inheritance.
A letter, roughly every six weeks
What I am working on, what I have been reading, and tour dates before they go on general sale.