IEThe Irish Times
The Salt King by Natasha Pulley: Overwhelming darkness leavened by shining dialogue
The author seals her reputation as one of the most magically imaginative writers at work today
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- 22 Aug 2026, 04:05 UTC
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- 23 Aug 2026, 03:52 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 22 Aug 2026, 03:58 UTC
- Source updated
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- Byline
- Neil Hegarty
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The author seals her reputation as one of the most magically imaginative writers at work today
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The Salt King by Natasha Pulley: Overwhelming darkness leavened by shining dialogue
The author seals her reputation as one of the most magically imaginative writers at work today
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- Capture ID
- #1091
- Observed
- 22 Aug 2026, 04:05 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 683,765 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt