- Autumn list 2026
- Fiction, essays, poems
- Twelve new books
Read slower.Keep longer.
Quillfold publishes twelve books a year, set by hand, sewn rather than glued and written by people who took their time.
- On the cover
- The Salt Ledger
- Author
- Ines Valcourt
- Form
- Novel, 312 pp.
- Price
- $19.00
- A first look
- Harbour ReviewA novel that rewards patience.
- The Bindery WeeklySewn like it matters, and it does.
- LanternlightThe quietest list in print.
- Marginalia MonthlyI read it twice, slowly.
- The Paper LedgerBeautiful objects, with the words to match.
- Northfield PostSmall press, large attention.
01The autumn list
Six books. Choose slowly.
Pick a cover. Each one opens a longer note, a first page and a place on your reading list.
The Salt Ledger
by Ines Valcourt
A harbour clerk inherits the tide tables of a town that has been quietly rewriting its own history, one entry at a time.
- Pages
- 312
- Published
- 2026
- Price
- $19.00
02The Quillfold hour
Hear the author before you read the book.
Six minutes with Ines Valcourt on the tide that did not arrive. Press play, scrub, or jump to a line in the transcript.
I started The Salt Ledger with a sentence about a tide that did not arrive.
Transcript
03Ways to read with us
The Quarterly Shelf
Four books a year, chosen by the editors, sent with a handwritten note and a bookmark we printed ourselves.
Translator’s notes
Every translated title ships with a short essay from the translator about what could not be carried across.
Readings in rooms
Small evening readings in bookshops and kitchens, never more than forty chairs, always with soup.
04The Margin Letter
One good paragraph, every other Friday.
A paragraph we loved, a book we are reading and the occasional correction. No tracking pixels, no discounts shouted in capitals.