Rankin says Rebus has “unfinished business” and may well be revisited. However he admitted that he fears by writing another Rebus novel, he will face a similar fate to Arthur Conan Doyle.

Anna Reid grills Ian Rankin about Rebus, writing and the best pubs in Edinburgh.

Teviot’s Evening with Ian Rankin, prolific crime writer, alumnus of Edinburgh University, recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, opened with this piece of wisdom: “Anyone else think chips and ketchup counts as two of your five-a-day?”.

Festival Theatre
23-27 Feb 2010
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Following two successful tours of The Vagina Monologues, Carol Smillie turns her hand to a slightly less high profile foray into female sexuality.

As shiny and modern as it seems after its 2008 refurbishment, Infirmary Street's Dovecot Studios actually dates back to 1912: its founder-weavers came from William Morris’ workshops in London. An Arts and Crafts institution of sorts, then, it echoes the movement’s anti-Industrial Revolution thoughts even today. They continue to commission and exhibit tapestry, ceramics, metal work, even employing ‘Master Weavers’ – commitment to craft indeed. Dovecot’s current exhibition ‘Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’, now on its second stop of an eight-venue tour, therefore seems quite at home at the gallery.

Edinburgh University Theatre Company opens Macbeth with the three witches emerging from a red velvet backdrop, wrapped in bandages, in a very life-like storm.