Ian Rankin

Louise and James Ashmore set to celebrate national Bookshop Day, at their independent shop, Read Bookshop in Holmfirth. Picture Tony Johnson

Behind the bookshop doors where magic is made in Holmfirth

The festival’s chief executive Sharon Canavar is buoyant about the prospect of hundreds of fiction-lovers returning for the first time in two years

Book lovers return to Harrogate Crime Writing Festival

Glittering Harrogate line-up - This year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programming Chair and Rebus author, Ian Rankin OBE.

Revealed - Famous guests for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Ha...

HOT SOUNDS: Latest CD reviews including the new album by The Charlatans. . Picture credit: PA Photo/Handout.

Classic sounds

Ian Rankin

The big read

Crime writer Val McDermid has sold more than 11 million books during her career. (PA).

Val McDermid - the art of making crime writing pay

Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan: Why sometimes we should all dare to be different

Rocker role for Rankin

The Proclaimers and Gretchen Peters, below.

Beverley Folk Festival still going strong

Racecourse setting for folk festival celebrating its 30th anniversary

Ian Rankin

The Big Interview: Ian Rankin

BBC defends channel shift for arts flagship

Ian Rankin and the case of the not-so-retiring detective

Crime writer to share stage with poet

Booker prize novelist Byatt wins oldest literary award

Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Joanne Harris and more: Exclusive audio from the 2010 ...

Student to follow star writers with study in US