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Kirstin Innes

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Kirstin Innes is an award-winning journalist and arts worker who lives in the west of Scotland. Fishnet, her debut novel, was published in April 2015 by Freight, and won The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and recorded for BBC Radio 4, and she's had short plays performed at Tron Theatre and The Arches in Glasgow. Her journalism has been published in The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The Herald, and she was assistant editor of The List magazine between 2006-2010. Kirstin won the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007 and 2011.
She's currently working on her second novel, Scabby Queen, and her first full-length play, Take Your Partners. ...more

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	Scabby Queen 3.69 avg rating — 3,203 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishnet 3.52 avg rating — 1,239 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Working Mother by Agnes Owens, Kirstin Innes (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches by Kirstin Innes (Goodreads Author), David Bratchpiece 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emerging Writer: An Insider's Guide to Your Writing Journey by Karen Pickering (Editor), Christy Dena (Contributor), Johannes Jakob (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't. Even. Ask. Too. Hot. by Kirstin Innes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Powici (Editor), Niall O'Gallagher (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	nothing but a set of eyes for stars: New Writing Scotland 41 by Kirstin Innes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marjorie Lotfi (Editor), Niall O'Gallagher (Gaelic Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishnet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reine d'un jour it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of Open Doors 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It doesn’t seem to matter what you say your politics are - in here you’re quite happy to have women skivvy for you.”
― Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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“He's my godfather. But why would people need reassurance, Jim? Surely we're not that precious about the work of a man who died two hundred years ago that we can't let a woman and some non-white men sing his songs?”
― Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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“People always found it funny when principled men betrayed themselves”
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