Ian Rankin
"This may be Rebus’s swansong but every page crackles with energy." Evening Standard on Exit Music
Chaired by Allan Massie
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin’s first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. He has won numerous prizes including two Daggers Awards for Short Story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize in 2000. His most recent novel, A Question of Blood, was a Sunday Times number one bestseller in both hardback and paperback. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh.
Thursday 23 November 2006
The Sanctuary, Augustine's, Edinburgh
