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 Course HERE 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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