The writer of the Inspector Rebus novels talks about his new book Midnight and Blue, being an author, and books that have ...

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A love letter to the crime novel, a dystopian UK and a taut political thriller... Our writers pick this year's most ...

I interviewed my first author on the radio. In July of 2004, I wrote my first column on books for this newspaper. Those two events were not coincidences, if I had not already spent 10 years talking ...

With fans including the likes of Outlander’s Sam Heughan and Rebus creator Ian Rankin, James Yorkston’s latest work – Tommy the Bruce – is set to release next month. It tells the story of the ...

This year got better and better, confounding those doomsayers who could only see a calamitous ­future as TV recovered from ...

Ian Rankin has always enjoyed building small model boats but, after a cancer diagnosis, the 82-year-old set himself a new challenge. The great-grandfather has spent the past 12 months hand ...

Gail Simone is the acclaimed writer of several comic books, including “Birds of Prey,” “Wonder Woman,” and currently “Uncanny X-Men.” Her first novel, “Red Sonja: Consumed,” was ...

Gail Simone is the acclaimed writer of several comic books, including “Birds of Prey,” “Wonder Woman,” and currently “Uncanny X-Men.” Her first novel, “Red Sonja: Consumed,” was published last month ...

ALMOST a decade has passed since Ian Lawson published his first book featuring Herdwick sheep and their shepherds. Much has changed, but then nothing has changed. The sheep still look the same.