Today Melbourne, tomorrow the world.
Does anyone younger than me still read William McIlvanney? My son reads
Rankin obsessively.
Edinburgh may currently be the Queen of Crime, but Glasgow wins hands-down
in the SF stakes -- Banks, McLeod, and Boyce.
Robin
(Will you be attending, Max? Any chance of a report? I'd nip over, but
I've misplaced my swimming trunks. R.)
> The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh (and the
> latter's immediate port, Leith) have a long
> history of rivalry and conflict which dates back
> well before the seventeenth century. This paper
> aims to analyse these conflicts and their
> respective futures by way of readings of the
> novels of two Scottish crime fiction writers, Ian
> Rankin and William Mcilvanney, as seen through
> the eyes of their central characters, John Rebus
> and Jack Laidlaw in an attempt to answer the
> question, where is, if any, the common ground
> between the two, past, present and future.
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