Highlights
"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
Ian Rankin says what is most important is what crime fiction tells us about society.
"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- "The library was my salvation"
- “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
