Freight Books is a former Scottish independent publisher that was based in Glasgow. Freight published fiction for an English speaking readership, and award-winning literary fiction as well as non-fiction. Freight Books was named Scotland's Publisher of the Year 2015 by the Saltire Society. Freight Books published the debut novel of Martin Cathcart Froden, the winner of the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize. The company was founded as an imprint of Freight Design by Adrian Searle in 2001. The publisher increased its output each year, publishing 35 titles per year on average, with notable publications including Gutter magazine, a Scottish magazine on new writing, Jellyfish by Janice Galloway and the international bestsellerThe Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu. Freight Books acquired Cargo Publishing in September 2015. In June 2017 Freight Books was offered for Sale through the Publishing Scotland website. In December 2017 Freight Books was finally liquidated and disappeared from the Scottish Publishing scene after failing to find a suitable buyer. Authors left with unpaid royalties.
Notable authors and works
Jim Carruth:
*Killochries, shortlisted for the Saltire Society Literary Award in Poetry
* The Hairdresser of Harare, voted an Observer Top Ten African Book 2012
Kirstin Innes:
* Fishnet, Winner of the Guardian Not the Booker Prize
Anneliese Mackintosh:
* Any Other Mouth, Winner of the Green Carnation Prize for https://www.amazon.co.uk/Because-You-are-Celebrating-Relativity/dp/1910449261LGBT Literature 2014, shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Prize 2014, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2015, short-listed for the Saboteur Best Short Story Collection Award 2015, longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award 2014
2015: Freight won publisher of the year by the Saltire Society. 2015: Killochries by Jim Carruth shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award. 2015: Lifeblood by Gill Fyffe shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. 2015: Jellyfish by Janice Galloway shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award. 2015: Fishnet by Kirsten Innes won the Guardian Not the Booker Prize. 2012: The Falling Sky by Pippa Goldschmidt was runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize. 2012: Furnace by Wayne Price longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and nominated for the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year. 2010: Gutter won the Chairman's Award at the Scottish Design Awards.
