"My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too."

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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

— Ian Rankin