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
Richard Irvine Best that he would never again use any mood but the subjunctive. The R. I. Best Memorial Lectures were established by the National Library in his honour. Richard Irvine Best Richard Irvine Best (1872 – 25 September 1959), often known as R. I. Best, was an Irish scholar who specialised in Celtic Studies. Best was born into a Protestant family in Derry and educated at Foyle College before working for a time in a bank. As a young man he went to Paris to study Old Irish, where he met Kuno Meyer and attended Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville's lectures at the