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Ian Rankin: My readers are more worried about Rebus’s health than mine

Source: PA Wire

Author Sir Ian Rankin has said fans of his Rebus series are more concerned about the health of the book’s detective than his own.

The Scottish writer, 64, appeared at Saturday’s Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, alongside other crime authors including Lee Child and Ann Cleeves, as part of a panel about their genre of fiction.

Sir Ian talked about when he goes to John Rebus’s favourite pub, the Oxford Bar in

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