REBUS'S SCOTLAND: A PERSONAL JOURNEY by Ian Rankin (Paperback) 2006

REBUS'S SCOTLAND: A PERSONAL JOURNEY by Ian Rankin.

Photographed by Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie.

On 4 July 1985 Ian rankin finished the first draft of a novel called KNOTS AND CROSSES featuring John Rebus. In his diary at the time, Rankin, then a twenty-five-year-old university student, described the completed work as 'a hundred and sixty page of drivel'.

Twenty years on, Inspector Rebus has taken on iconic status and the series has sold millions of copies around the world.

In REBUS'S SCOTLAND Ian rankin offers exclusive insights into the world Rebus inhabits, but also the place he came from - the rural Scotland ofRankin's childhood. In writing his own autobiography, he unlocks the secrets of what makes John Rebus tick.

Stunningly illustrated with photographs that reflect the places Rebus inhabits, REBUS'S SCOTLAND gives a unique portrait of both Ian Rankin and his most famous creation John Rebus.

A must-have for all Rebus fans as the writer, revisting the rural Scotland of his upbringing, reveals the genesis of his characters.

A paperback published by Orion Books in 2006 (£14.99 r.r.p.)