Ian Rankin wants tax incentives to help new authors
Inspector Rebus creator fears for new writing talent as publishers cut advances and internet transforms industryIan Rankin, the author of the Inspector Rebus series, is calling for tax incentives to support new writers, as cash-strapped publishers cut ...
The 10 best fictional sleuths
You included Jeffery Deaver at the expense of Raymond Chandler. I'm just going to let you read that sentence back a few times.Euan Ferguson
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
In the return of Ian Rankin's post-Rebus detective, the complex Inspector Fox displays a quiet gift for objective scrutinyBook two in Ian Rankin's post-Rebus series of procedurals continues the job, begun in 2009's The Complaints, of breaking in the re...
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
The second Inspector Malcolm Fox book proves that Ian Rankin has created a complex, worthy rival to RebusInspector Malcolm Fox's latest investigation starts slowly. Sent to the small town of Kirkcaldy to look into a case of police corruption – Detect...
New Scottish writing
Is it useful to talk of Scottish literature, when there's such a diverse range of work coming out of the country? What effect does landscape have on what authors write, and who are the great new writers we should be looking out for here?Charlotte Higgi...
Radio 4 in partial U-turn over cut in short stories
Move follows protest from listeners including Stephen Fry and Joanna LumleyBBC Radio 4 prompted an outcry from listeners including Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley after it announced it was going to axe the number of short stories it broadcasts from three...
Real-life Ian Rankin mystery
Series of intricate paper artworks linked to Rebus author's work left around EdinburghIt's a mystery worthy of the skills of Ian Rankin's detective John Rebus: a collection of intricate paper sculptures are being left around Edinburgh by an anonymous i...
The best holiday reads
Anna Karenina on the beach, The Corrections in Patagonia, Death in Venice overlooking the Lido ... Writers recall their most memorable holiday reads – what are yours?John BanvilleI came late to Henry James. In my teenage years I read some of the sto...
Edinburgh book festival highlights
From fiction to poetry to children's illustrators, here is the pick of the events at the festival this yearFictionA new novel from Alan Hollinghurst, the first since his 2004 Booker-winning The Line of Beauty, and the final instalment of Edward St Auby...
Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie lead list of UK’s top-earning crimewriters
Dead authors are still making a fortune, while John Grisham and Dan Brown lead the US rankingsIan Fleming, creator of James Bond, has beaten Agatha Christie to the title of most successful – and highest earning – British crime writer of all time.Th...
On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft
How do you set about writing a novel? What inspires a poem? Pencil or computer? Pain or pleasure? Listen in to interviews with some of our most celebrated writers recorded for the British Library, and enter our competition to identify the mys...
