Fishnet (book) Her life suddenly changes when she learns Rona was working as a sex worker. On a journey to uncover the truth about her sister, Fiona investigates the sex industry and meets with sex workers. Her misconceptions of the sex industry are challenged, and what she uncovers changes her life forever. "Fishnet" won the Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2015. "The Independent" included "Fishnet" on its Christmas 2015: The top 10 debut fiction books list. James Kidd from "The Independent" compared "Fishnet" to Trainspotting, the novel by Irvine Welsh about Scottish heroin users, as it portrays a 'clandestine world (here, prostitution
A Welsh Singer (novel) A Welsh Singer (novel) A Welsh Singer is a novel written by Anne Puddicombe in 1896. It was later adapted into a silent drama film in 1915. Anne Adalisa Puddicombe, also known as Allen Raine, was a romantic novelist from Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion. At thirteen years of age she and her sister were sent to Cheltenham and Wandsworth, where they were educated by the family of Henry Solly, a Unitarian minister and radical activist. At the National Eisteddfod of 1894 she won a prize for her story about Welsh country life. Encouraged by this, she finished her first novel "Mifanwy"