Ian Rankin has become the first Scottish writer, and only the seventh British novelist, to pass the £50m print sales barrier since official records began. Thanks to a huge surge in sales of his books since he picked up the Outstanding Achievement gong at the Specsavers National Book Awards earlier this month, Rankin breezed passed the...

Author Irvine Welsh has hit out at the Man Booker Prize at the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, saying it is "based on the conceit that upper-class Englishness is the cultural yardstick against which all literature must be measured." 

Welsh also said that his novel Trainspotting would struggle to find...

Author Ian Rankin has revealed that his next novel Standing in Another Man’s Grave will see the return of his hero Rebus, who he is bringing out of retirement after five years.

The Orion title is lined up for 8th November, and will be told with Rebus at its centre, as well as new character Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh'...

Author Ian Rankin stressed that authors "really need publishers", especially "as more content floods the market, of varying quality", as his own publisher Orion celebrated its 20th anniversary at a reception at the Natural History Museum in London last night.

Rankin, who was one of the original authors to join...