Ian Rankin: Last News

detective Rebus to the stage after completing a script during lockdown. And the author said Hollywood star Brian Cox would be ideal to play his Edinburgh crimebuster.

banned from writing sex scenes involving his famous detective Rebus.The author revealed he had penned a passage involving the Edinburgh police officer in bed with a woman in one of his early novels.However, his editor insisted the scene was removed as he didn’t think it would go down well with readers.Fife-born Rankin was told to avoid any graphic descriptions of sex in his books and leave it to the reader’s imagination.He said: “There is not much romance in my books.“In the third novel, when I was very young, I did put a sex scene in. I thought, ‘If you’re going to do crime novels there should be a bit of sex in there as well’."I had Rebus having sex and my editor said ‘No, please don’t.

Ian Rankin has told how he has been unable to hug his disabled son for almost a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The author’s son Kit, who has a genetic condition called Angelman syndrome, has been living at a care facility where he is well looked after by staff.

gateway drug” for reading.Rankin, 60, whose Rebus novels are bestsellers, grew up in a house with barely any books but used to read The Beano and The Dandy.He described comics as “affordable literacy for kids” and said writing was like “playing with his imaginary friends” but joked that if he’d achieved success in his 20s it would have been baths filled with champagne and gold-plated pinball machines.Rankin said: “Comics were a few pennies and for a few pennies you’d be reading a story that would keep you occupied for a while and you could swap them with your friends."We didn’t have many books in the house but I was allowed to indulge my hunger for comics and I’d get seven or eight a week.“It was the Dandy and the Beano, the Victor and the

Scots crime author Ian Rankin has spent his birthday enjoying a pint at an Edinburgh pub despite lockdown.

In the final part of our exclusive serialisation of Ian Rankin’s Being Frank short story, we discover the truth behind a homeless man’s wild conspiracy theroy and the mystery callers to John Rebus' Edinburgh flat. Playing catch up? Find part 1 here and part 2 here. These were the two men Shuffling Frank had been talking about! Of course they were, only Frank had misheard: council of war was Councillor Waugh; Rhodes was roads.

In the final part of our exclusive serialisation of Ian Rankin’s Being Frank short story, we discover the truth behind a homeless man’s wild conspiracy theory and the mystery callers to John Rebus’ Edinburgh flat.

Ian Rankin has told how he regrets not buying a pub after being unable to go to his favourite boozer.