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Beggars Banquet

Beggars Banquet

by IanRankin (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $4.20

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    Paperback 2007

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular Rebus novels. Ranging from the macabre ('The Hanged Man') to the unfortunate ('The Only True Comedian') right back to the sinister ('Someone Got To Eddie') they all bear the hallmark of great crime writing. Of even more interest to his many fans, Ian includes seven Inspector Rebus stories in this collection ...'Rankin forays into short stories to exhilarating effect' Sunday Times.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 22 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0752877143
ISBN 13: 9780752877143
Book Overview: Reissued in the stunning new livery. All the backlist are being reissued in the new look. Ian Rankin is a regular Sunday Times bestseller and Guardian fastseller. He has an incredibly high profile - in 2003, he had his own TV series (Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts), received his OBE, guested on Newsnight Review and is a constant contributor to the national press. He has won numerous awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award. Ian now makes up more than 10 per cent of all UK crime sales. He also constantly gets excellent reviews: 'Ian Rankin is currently Britain's hottest crime writer and BEGGARS BANQUET is his latest collection of short stories ... There is not a dud in the pack, with each story perfectly judged and bearing all the hallmarks of a writer at the peak of his powers. Great' Time Out. 'Rankin continues to be unsurpassed among living British crime writers' The Times. 'Masterfully plotted, clear and succinct' Scotsman. 'No other writer in his chosen genre is producing books as rich and comprehensive as this: Dickensian, you might say' Literary Review. 'Rankin is a master of his craft' Independent on Sunday.

Author Bio
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into more than twenty languages and are bestsellers worldwide. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University. A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.