Novelist, journalist, writer
ABOUT KIRSTIN
Kirstin Innes lives in the west of Scotland.
Her novels include Fishnet (UK: Black & White, US: Simon & Schuster), which won The Guardian‘s Not The Booker Prize in 2015 and is currently being adapted for TV by STV, and Scabby Queen (UK: 4th Estate, France: Editions Métailié as Reine d’un jour), which was nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize and Scottish Novel of the Year. She is an award-winning journalist and former Press & Journal columnist, and the co-author, with David Bratchpiece, of the non-fiction book Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches. She’s also written extensively for radio, including the BBC Radio 4 documentary Daft Punk Are Staying At My House. Kirstin is currently working on her third novel, The Book of Risk, and adapting Scabby Queen both as a film and a touring musical.
‘Scottish fiction has a long history of state-of-the-nation novels that examine the collision of myth and reality. Think of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Alasdair Gray’s surreal fantasy Lanark or James Robertson’s sweeping epic And the Land Lay Still. To their ranks can now be added Scabby Queen … as complicated, complex, tragic and bewitching as the woman at its heart’
– The Independent
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