Freight Books

Freight Books is a Scottish independent publisher based in Glasgow. Freight publishes fiction for an English speaking readership,^[1] and publishes award-winning literary fiction as well as non-fiction.^[2] Freight Books was named Scotland's Publisher of the Year 2015^[3] by the Saltire Society.

The company was founded as an imprint of Freight Design by Adrian Searle and Davinder Samrai in 2001. The publisher has increased its output each year, now publishing 35 titles per year on average,^[4] with notable publications including Gutter, a Scottish magazine on new writing, Jellyfish by Janice Galloway and the international bestseller The Hairdresser of Harare by.^[5][6]

Freight Books acquired Cargo Books in September 2015.^[7]

Notable authors and works

• Jim Carruth:
  • Killochries (2015), short-listed for the Saltire Society Literary Award in Poetry
• Janice Galloway:
  • Jellyfish (2015), short-listed for the Saltire Society Literary Award in Literary Fiction, long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award^[8]
• Pippa Goldschmidt:
  • The Falling Sky (2013), runner-up in the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize^[9]
  • The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space (2015), long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award^[10]
  • I Am Because You Are (2015), as an editor
• Tendai Huchu:
  • The Hairdresser of Harare (2013), voted an Observer Top Ten African Book 2012^[11]
• Kirstin Innes:
  • Fishnet (2015), Winner of the Guardian Not the Booker Prize^[12]
• Anneliese Mackintosh
  • Any Other Mouth (2014), Winner of the Green Carnation Prize for LGBT Literature 2014, short-listed for the Saltire First Book Prize 2014, short-listed for the Edge Hill Prize 2015, short-listed for the Saboteur Best Short Story Collection Award 2015, long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award 2014^[13]

References

1. ↑ "Freight Books Homepage". Freight Books. Retrieved 22 January 2016. 
2. ↑ "Freight Books Titles". Freight Books. Retrieved 22 January 2016. 
3. ↑ "Freight Books wins Saltire Society Publisher of the Year 2015". Freight Books. Retrieved 22 January 2016. 
4. ↑ "Freight Books". Publishing Scotland. Retrieved 22 January 2016. 
5. ↑ "Freight Books | Books from Scotland". Books from Scotland. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
6. ↑ "Publishing Scotland - Scottish publishing industry network body". www.publishingscotland.org. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
7. ↑ "Freight Books buys Cargo Publishing | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
8. ↑ "Jellyfish by Janice Galloway - Freight Books". freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
9. ↑ "The Falling Sky by Pippa Goldschmidt". Freight Books. Retrieved 22 January 2016. 
10. ↑ "The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space by Pippa Goldschmidt - Freight Books". freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
11. ↑ "The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu - Freight Books". www.freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
12. ↑ "Signed copies of Fishnet by Kirstin Innes - Freight Books". freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
13. ↑ "Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh - Freight Books". freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22.