It’s our 150th episode! And we can’t think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise. We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy’s Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing CourseHERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan – Limelight
Ian Rankin – The Rise
Muriel Spark – Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark – Hothouse by the East River
Alain Robbe-Grillet – Last Year at Marienbad
Muriel Spark – The Drivers Seat
Muriel Spark – Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark – Loitering With Intent
Reginald Hill – Asking Fo the Moon
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Anbara Salam – Hazardous Spirits
Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
Muriel Spark – The Bachelors
Arthur Conan Doyle – Complete Sherlock Holmes
James Hogg – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
Joseph Heller – Catch 22
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Robin Moore – The French Connection
William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist
Dorothy Whipple – Someone at a Distance
Ian Rankin – The Flood
Ian Rankin – Knots and Crosses
Ian Rankin – Watchman
Graham Greene – Human Factor
Ian Rankin – Westwind
Michael Connelly – Desert Star
James Ellroy – LA Confedential
Lawrence Block – A Drop of the Hard Stuff
William McIlvanney – Laidlaw
Denise Mina – The Long Drop
Anita Nair – Cut Like Wound
Thomas Pynchon – Short Stories
Stieg Larsson – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Henning Mankell – Faceless Killers
Jo Nesbo – The Snowman
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life
Alasdair Gray – Poor Things
Alasdair Gray – Lanark
John Niven – Oh Brother
Jilly Cooper – Tackle
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