Ian Rankin
Book Shambles Live at the Edinburgh Fringe
International best selling author Ian Rankin returns to Book Shambles for a special episode recorded as part of our live run at the Edinburgh Fringe. He chats to Robin about Rebus, great music novels, being asked to ghost write Sean Connery’s biography and how crime writers seek revenge on ex-lovers…
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Reading List
Ian recommends:
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks
The work of Muriel Sparks
The work of Alexander McCall Smith
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Chronicles by Bob Dylan
Diary of a Rock N’ Roll Star by Ian Hunter
I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
The work of Raymond Chandler
The work of James Ellroy
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Robin recommends:
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The work of Graham Greene
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Coma by Robin Cook
The work of Philip Ridley
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Also, Ian suggests you never, ever read The Gates of Janus by Ian Brady
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