Authors:
  • I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

    "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.