Rebus's Scotland [antikvár]

Court and Spark Once I had cut the ribbon, it was official: Ian Rankin Court existed. This was the August of 2004. I'd been contacted earlier in the year by the housebuilder, asking my agreement in the naming of the street. I'd argued that Rankin Court or maybe even Rebus Court would be more seemly, but he'd managed to persuade me otherwise. Friends who knew I was coming back to Cardenden for the ceremony had already alerted me to the six-figure prices attached to this new housing development, sited where a builder's yard had once stood. Six figures: and none of our parents had even owned their own homes. 1 was shown around the development. Some of the gardens backed on to a trickling stream. It ran through the Den, an area of overgrown wilderness we had all been taken to on primary school outings. Denend Primary sat just the other side of the railway bridge. I'd won my first literary prize of any r;- . COURT AND SPARK 1 p