Rankin

1 The Impossible Deadby Ian Rankin What was most difficult about it?The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting.

2 Also, Miranda Sawyer heads to Manchester to chat with Elbow about their latest album, and photographer Rankin selects his favourite moments from the BBC archives.

3 Ms. Glück, in a telephone interview from her home in Cambridge, Mass., a few days after the awards ceremony, recalled Ms. Rankin as “a phenomenal student.”

4 Perhaps the last of the most vivid Rankin/Bass specials, this one features Robert Morse as the title wintertime sprite, who yearns to become mortal after he falls in love with a human girl.

5 “Montana Democrats should forgive Miss Rankin for her election, nor lay blame therefore on the ‘illogical’ Democratic women.”

6 Photograph: Shootart Mobile/Courtesy White Cube The organza that forms the backcloth to Jessica Rankin's embroideries barely seems able to take the weight of her glittering metallic threads.

7 And this week Rankin announced a new novel featuring the dyspeptic Edinburgh detective, due in November.

8 Meat and barbecue guru Neil Rankin is a little more enthusiastic.

9 Here are a couple from me to kick things off: • I'm enjoying Ian Rankin's tweets• This book chart of top selling titles, including five self published books in the top 20, I thought was interesting.•

10 But a number of specials produced by Rankin/Bass more than make up for its relative lack of mortality, some of which have become seasonal broadcast staples.

11 When districts are drawn in Montana in 1918, gerrymandering Rankin into a Democratic district, she counters by running for the Senate instead of the House.

12 Standing in Another Man's Grave, the first book to feature Rebus since he retired in 2007's Exit Music, will be out this November, Rankin said on Tuesday.

13 When Rankin’s name was called, she did not answer.

14 Her actual genealogy is just as impressive as her musical ancestry: Rankin is a member of the Rankin Family, Canadian folk luminaries who have written and toured across the country for decades.

15 Visiting her brother at Harvard in 1904, Rankin witnesses the tenements and slums of a crowded city.

16 However, Rankin left the door open to a reprieve, saying demolition was not imminent and the council would "talk to any serious investors with a proposition to invest in it for the future".

17 “Anything he can do, I can do better,” Mr. Rankin said.

18 Away from the conference, it's a packed schedule on this rainy day 11, with Ben Okri discussing the theatrical adaptation of his short story The Comic Destiny, and local star Ian Rankin appearing this evening.

19 South Africa in Pictures9pm, BBC4 After a decade intrigued by South Africa's contrasts and extremes, photographer Rankin sets out to explore its photographic history.

20 Women’s bathrooms will be constructed, but for now Rankin will have to use the public ones.