About this book
The Flood, published in 1986, is Ian Rankin's literary first novel -- a coming-of-age story set in a fictionalised version of his Fife hometown, written while he was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh and carrying only faint echoes of the crime writer he'd become. It runs 251 pages.
Key facts about The Flood
Ian Rankin wrote The Flood, a book on our list. It has been out since 1986. The book has 251 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781846173103 to find the main one.
Ian Rankin has 35 books on our list. 30 of them belong to a series, while 5 stand alone. All 35 are out now. Other books by Ian Rankin on file include Midnight and Blue (2024), A Heart Full of Headstones (2022), The Dark Remains (2021) and A Song for the Dark Times (2020).
After it came Knots and Crosses in 1987. Since then, our list has added 34 more books by Ian Rankin.
Ian Rankin has 3 series on file, such as Jack Laidlaw, Inspector Rebus and Malcolm Fox. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781846173103