"Burke and Hare was one of the stories that I grew up with. Yet, although they killed 16 people, only Burke was executed for their crimes after Hare turned King’s Evidence and informed on his former partner. Instead of digging up bodies, Burke and Hare’s method was to suffocate their victims and sell the bodies to anatomist Dr Robert Knox. Having started his carer with work experience at the Inverness Courier and Highland News, Ranscombe is now based in Edinburgh where he worked previously for the Scotsman and now for Scottish Field, but his first novel re-imagines one of the capital’s more notorious residents, William Hare.īurke and Hare, both called William and both from the north of Ireland, made their money supplying cadavers to the anatomists of Edinburgh University. "The Book Festival started just as I was leaving for university, but it’s been just fantastic to see how it has grown over the years." "I was really excited when they asked me," he said. Peter Ranscombe was brought up in Nairn before leaving for university and a career in journalism, and is delighted to be invited back to the north to talk about his debut novel.
Peter Ranscombe with the skeleton of Hare's partner in crime William Burke.įOR one author at Nairn Book & Arts Festival, his weekend appearance is a home town gig.
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