Summary
B ritain's best-selling crime-writer Ian Rankin bid farewell to his most famous character Inspector Rebus less than two years ago - but hasn't had time to miss him. His hard-drinking anti-social detective may have retired, but millionaire Ian is certainly not going the same way.
At 48, retirement is not an option for the award-winning Edinburgh-based author, who lives in the same street as fellow writer Alexander McCall Smith and around the corner from J K Rowling. Even though he doesn't need to work he sets himself a punishing schedule, speaking at book events and festivals, supporting charities, sitting on a literacy commission in Scotland and campaigning to encourage young readers, in between writing novels.See the full content of this document
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For Ian, Life After Rebus Is Still All Go
He's also supporting World Book Day on Thursday, and has written a short crime novel, A Cool Head, part of the Quick Reads series by best-selling writers and celebrities, designed for people who have lost the reading habit or struggle with reading.
Not surprisingly he simply hasn't had time to mi...See the full content of this document
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