Design house Freight to launch publishing division
Scottish design agency Freight is set to formally enter the world of publishing with the launch of its own Book division and will publish the new novel by Scottish Water marketing chief Chris Wallace.
The Glasgow design house, which has a long history of producing literature, will launch Freight Design's book division in the middle of September, and will also publish ‘Killing the Messenger’, the fourth novel by Wallace, a political conspiracy thriller, partially based on his time as managing director of social marketing agency Barkers.
Adrian Searle, managing director of Freight explained that he will head up the new business as well as maintain the current design business alongside co-founder Davinder Samrai.
“This has been bourne out of a love for design for print and a commitment to doing self-commissioned projects,” explained Searle. “We’ve published around ten to twelve books over the last ten years. With the success of Gutter magazine, it’s led to significant increase in opportunities to publish really great work by Scottish writers. The economic circumstances at the moment has seen a massive reduction in fiction being published in London which has meant that we’re far more competitive in terms of attracting the top literary talent. We decided to formalise things and create a very specific Scottish fiction in terms of Freight Books,” added Searle.
Freight Books will come into existence on 19 September.