UK-Specific

Hachette Digital have confirmed that they’ll be publishing the UK ebook edition of Transition in epub format, priced £17.61 and available from Waterstones.com and WHSmith.co.uk. More details when the relevant catalogue links go live.

There’s an early review for the new Iain Banks novel, Transition in the August 2009 edition of Prospect Magazine. Unfortunately you can’t read the full piece on the Prospect website unless you’re a magazine subscriber, […]

Iain Banks was the special guest on Shereen Nanjiani’s current events talk show on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday evening. If you missed the show, you can listen again via the BBC website until Saturday August […]

DaveH of The Banksoniain fanzine fame has been in touch with some information about an audio contribution by Iain to a dance performance that’s opening tonight in London: Not strictly an Iain appearance but Gary […]

The programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival has been posted online and confirms that Iain Banks will be taking part in two events this year. The first will be a reading for the […]

A quick reminder: Iain will be appearing at the Islay Book Festival this weekend, with a Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? Q&A session taking place on Saturday at 10.30 and a session focusing […]

Just a quick reminder that Iain Banks will be appearing at this coming weekend’s Latitude Festival. The Literary Arena page has been updated recently and lists Iain as appearing on Saturday, possibly round about lunch-time […]

The 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 […]

David 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 […]

It 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 […]

The Independent and Audible.co.uk have teamed up to bring you a free, yes, that’s right, a completely FREE – audio download of the new audiobook version of The Wasp Factory. The Independent explains: “Over the […]

Doug Martin of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre has been in touch with the details of a forthcoming tour of the Cumbernauld Theatre company’s production of The Wasp Factory. Here’s the press release: The Tron Theatre is […]