Iain Banks’ ‘The Wasp Factory’ to feature in The Guardian
June 26, 2008Over the next four weekends, starting on June 28, John Mullan - professor of English at University College London - will be discussing Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory for the Guardian Book Club. Iain will also write a response piece, which will be published on July 12. We'll bring you links to any online content as we discover it, of course.
Banks-fans and other interested readers can also join the professor and the author for a discussion of the novel on Thursday July 10 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1. Doors open at 6.30 p.m. and entry costs £8. To book a ticket, email book.club@guardian.co.uk or phone 020 7886 9281.
[Thanks to Dave H of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Iain Banks appearing at the 2008 Edinburgh Book Festival
June 17, 2008The Edinburgh International Book Festival recently published its 2008 events schedule, so we can now confirm that Iain [M] Banks will be appearing on Wednesday August 13th, from 8.00 to 9.00 p.m. in a session billed as 'The Biggart Bailey Event'.
Tickets are £9 (£7 conc.) and will go on sale from June 20th. We'd love to send you straight to the relevant ticket-booking page, but alas the EIBF website just isn't built that way, but if you head on over to tickets.edbookfest.co.uk and run a search for 'Iain Banks' the details should pop right up.
Worth noting also that Iain's good pal and fellow Orbit author Ken MacLeod will also be taking part in a couple of EIBF events this year; check the website for details.
[Thanks to DaveH of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Iain Banks appearing in Gateshead, September ‘08
June 3, 2008David from The Banksoniain has been in touch to let us know that Iain Banks is scheduled to put in an appearance in Gateshead on Friday September 12, as part of Gateshead Libraries' National Year of Reading events programme.
Initial info has been posted at www.asaplive.com, with more details to follow in due course, which we'll post as soon as we have them.
Iain Banks appearing at 2008 Islay Book Festival
May 16, 2008It was announced a while ago, but we've recently been sent some additional information on Iain's forthcoming appearance at the 2008 Islay Book Festival, which runs over the weekend of September 6th and 7th at Port Ellen Primary School on Islay.
Iain will be taking questions from the audience during a panel session on Saturday 6th at 10.30 a.m. and will then be talking about his latest novel, Matter at a second session on Sunday 7th at 2.00 p.m.
More information is available on the Islay Book Festival website: www.islaybookfestival.com.
Iain Banks to appear as GoH at 2008 Oslo Science Fiction Festival
March 22, 2008Iain will be making an appearance as Guest of Honour at this year's Oslo Science Fiction Festival, which takes place from Thursday July 31st to Sunday August 3rd at Helga Eng's House, Blindern, University of Oslo.
More information on the Festival at www.oslosf.no.
[Thanks to DaveH of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod AyeWrite! appearance - video available
March 20, 2008If you didn't manage to get to Glasgow for the AyeWrite! Book Festival earlier this month and therefore missed the on-stage appearance of Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod, then do not despair, you now have a chance to catch up...
A video excerpt of the reading and discussion session has now been posted over at the AyeWrite website. And you can download a full MP3 recording of the event if you prefer to listen at a later date, which has also been posted as a Podcast to iTunes.
[Thanks to DaveH of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Iain (M) Banks confirmed as Guest of Honour for Satellite 2, July 25th-26th 2009
March 19, 2008Iain Banks will be the Guest of Honour at Satellite 2, a convention being be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow over the weekend of July 25th and 26th, 2009.
Early days yet, so more details will be forthcoming at a later date, but memberships are already available from www.satellite2.org.uk.
[Thanks to DaveH of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Iain Banks to appear at Latitude Festival 2008
March 19, 2008Iain has been confirmed as one of the leading lights of the line-up for the Literary Arena at this year's Latitude Festival, which takes place at Henham Park, Southwold in Suffolk from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th July.
Iain will be appearing on the same bill as fellow literary heavyweights Hanif Kureishi, A L Kennedy and Irvine Welsh. Check out the Latitude 2008 website for the full line-up of bands, writers, comedians and poets.
[Thanks to DaveH of 'The Banksoniain' for the heads-up]
Quick reminder: Iain Banks signing tour starts Monday Feb 25th
February 22, 2008Iain Banks will be meeting his public and signing copies of his brand new Culture novel Matter (and, most probably, the paperback edition of The Steep Approach to Garbadale) at City Books in Hove, Waterstone's Bristol, Waterstone's Norwich and Waterstone's Lincoln from Monday to Thursday next week.
Full details can be found in the Appearances section of the Extras page of the site.
Site update: forthcoming appearances info added to Extras
February 15, 2008Just a quick note to say that information on a number of Iain Banks' forthcoming public appearances has been added to the Extras section of the site.
Currently listed are Iain's forthcoming signing tour to promote Matter, as well as later appearances at the 'Aye! Write' festival in Glasgow (March '08), the Lincoln Book Festival (May '08) and the Newcon4 sf convention in Northampton (October '08).
He's also making an appearance (so we understand) at the Islay Book Festival / Port Ellen Book Festival, but details are currently a bit sketchy. Info will be posted as soon as the details have been confirmed.
