He's sold more than 20 million books worldwide and is the UK's biggest crime writer.Now, in the first of an exclusive three-part serialisation, Ian Rankin shares his gripping short story, Being Frank, featuring his famous detective, John Rebus.His novel, Westwind, is out in paperback on Thursday, June 11, 2020. It wasn't easy, being Frank.
That’s what everybody called him, when they weren’t calling him a dirty old tramp or a scrounger or a layabout. Frank, they called him.Only the people at the hostel and at the Social Security bothered with his full name: Francis Rossetti Hyslop.
Rossetti, he seemed to remember, not after the painter but after his sister the poet, Christina.Most often, a person – a person in authority – would read that.
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