Rebus author Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as a guest programmer for the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing ...

Novelist Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as the first ever guest programmer for an “epic” crime writing festival. Sir Ian ...

The position will see the award-winning novelist put his own spin on the event, including some new events for the programme.

Ian Rankin is the bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus mysteries and other books. A multiple award winner, the novelist, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been knighted and made an officer of ...

The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre You can always depend on Chris Brookmyre to surprise you – no two books of his are the same. The Cracked Mirror starts off looking like a homage to Agatha ...

The author of the bestselling Rebus novels says the death of his mother when he was just 19 may have led him to his most famous character. In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Scotland News, Sir ...

Muriel Spark makes notes on one of her novels in 1960 Before he became the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus novels, Ian Rankin spent three years researching a PhD on one of the Scotland ...

When Rebus author Ian Rankin first met William McIlvanney he told him he was working on his first crime book which was going to be "like Laidlaw, but set in Edinburgh" Crime writer Ian Rankin has ...

starring Richard Rankin, to our audiences in Scotland and across the UK." The first Rebus book, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and Sir Ian's detective novels have been translated into 22 ...

Streetreads, the charity backed by Edinburgh author Sir Ian Rankin and the Edinburgh Makar, Michael Pedersen is under threat of losing its home in Nicholson Square. The library provides a safe space ...

Rankin stars as Detective Sergeant John Rebus, a character created by author Sir Ian Rankin (no relation to Richard) in his ...

Ian Rankin lives in Edinburgh, and his award-winning 'Inspector Rebus' novels have topped the Sunday Times bestseller lists. The books have been dramatised for TV, and are translated into 22 ...