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Ian Rankin embarrassed by 'purple prose' of first book

'There's words in it I don't actually understand,' Rebus author tells interviewer

Looking back on the pretentious scribblings of youth is embarrassing for anyone, so pity poor Ian Rankin, whose musings from his early 20s are immortalised for all time in his debut novel The Flood.

From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk

Monday, 16 August, 2010

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