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Author Ian Rankin with some of the haul of his personal archive donated to the National Library of Scotland thursday after downsizing his Edinburgh home and which include early drafts of Rebus novels and letters to fellow authors..Pic Gordon Terris/The He
AMONG the many things I’ve missed this past year is working in the National Library of Scotland. With its studiously hushed reading rooms, Pickwickian shelves of leather-bound books, and trolleys piled with returns, like upmarket ScotRail buffet carts, the NLS is a haven for anyone who needs access to the millions of books, manuscripts and images held its bottomless archive.