Fishnet (novel)

Fishnet
First edition cover
AuthorKirstin Innes
PublisherFreight Books
Publication date
July 1, 2015
AwardNot the Booker Prize (2015)
ISBN9781910449066

Fishnet is the debut novel of Kirstin Innes, published in 2015 by Freight Books. The story follows a Scottish woman who, after learning her missing sister was working as a sex worker, sets out to examine the sex industry. Fishnet was the winner of the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2015.[1] Innes spoke about the book at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival.[2]

In August 2018, Fishnet was re-published by Black & White Publishing, following the liquidation of Freight Books in December 2017.[3]

  1. ^ Jordison, Sam (12 October 2015). "Not the Booker prize 2015: Kirstin Innes wins with Fishnet – video". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Kirstin Innes". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  3. ^ Flood, Alison (6 December 2017). "Freight authors aghast as former publisher sets up new imprint". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.