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...‘But I think your stuff needs to fit into this world somehow.’ It’s being directed by Rebecca Frecknall, opening with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. To be part of this is just pretty mind-blowing.”...
...I collect mostly photography and art but also pop culture items, mainly books – design, fashion and cinema. I’m attracted to visual things,” he says....
...I’ve never seen growth like this in the spirits industry,” Rankin says. Owned by private investors, Ardross Distillery is operated by Greenwood Spirits, with Rankin as chairman....
...“A book of great lyrical power,” the young Ian Rankin agreed. In The Sunday Times, Sir David Steel declared that it “presents us with the most individualistic voice for a decade”....
...In fact, Albert Camus remarked: “If I hadn’t read The Widow Couderc, I wouldn’t have written The Outsider as I did.”...
...Rankin’s rugs are exclusively hand-knotted in a small family-run workshop in Bulgaria....
...Here’s some of the best places that I head to when I’m back in my home town and in snob mode....
...“Why am I getting arrested, I don’t have any money or drugs,” the agents quoted Fahie as saying as he was led away....
...“I’m happily surprised at how quickly things are coming back,” said Fergus Linehan, the international festival’s outgoing director....
...Next month the Fife Arms is hosting the Braemar Literary Festival, featuring speakers including authors Ian Rankin and Sebastian Faulks, and chef Angela Hartnett....
...“There’s so much that I don’t think I’m going to get it done in the next year, so I think I’m going to be at this for a fair while,” he says....
...Brookmyre’s familiar sardonic prose is pleasingly in place, while The Murder Book by Mark Billingham (£20) is a reminder that Ian Rankin has a notable rival for the title of Britain’s leading male crime...
...“I quite like him!” ★★★☆☆ Available on Channel 4 from October 5 at 9.30pm Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...“I don’t think it’s anything anyone wants.”...
...“I don’t think so,” he smiles, “although we did get a request for a grill using lava that we had to say was not possible.”...
...“I suspect very strongly that he is the tip of an iceberg.”...
...“I like how accessible, light and nomadic they are in character, as well as their potential for carrying a story,” she says....
...But I'm keen to share a vegan plant-based burger with meat-centric chef Neil Rankin. So I think I'm going to try it. OK I'll go too Here goes. So the mouthfeel is like meat. Yup. Is like a burger....
...“I’d say they are almost three inches long on either side now. It is harder to hide them . . . If I’d had horns this sharp whilst he was alive, I’d have staked him at least ten times....
...That joke I’ve given away. Don’t worry, there are more and better yet in this one single sequence, a comic magnum opus of impotent fury and lactic acid....
...They felt like I did not fit in. I was uncomfortable,” she says....
...The National Theatre of Scotland likewise produced Scenes for Survival (Ian Rankin’s much-loved fictional detective Rebus was one of the characters, self-isolating grumpily in his Edinburgh flat)....
...“I’ve never seen it like this. Tests are being pushed through for commercial reasons, not scientific reasons.”...
...Its televised painting class, Portrait Artist of the Week, which includes celebrity sitters such as novelist Bernardine Evaristo and photographer Rankin, reached 4.6m viewers, and returns with the free channel...
...“I don’t understand all of that,” Rankin says drily, “but it’s lovely, and it’s musical, and it’s definitely about whisky.”...
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