Bonny Town

Scottish author Ian Rankin has written a fascinating article posted on the blog of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (It's official: everyone has a blog now.) He writes on the long and rich history of literature in Edinburgh. Rankin is also the author of my new favorite series of police procedurals, the John Rebus novels.

Kate Atkinson's recent novel One Good Turn gives another view of the same terrain: her novel is peopled with Edinburgh's criminals both high and low.