Iain Banks Posts
The Wasp Factory, BBC Radio 4 Bookclub, Sunday Nov 6th
The Banksoniain’s David H informs us that: “The Wasp Factory will be featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub on Sunday November 6th (and repeated on the 10th). It was recorded in Edinburgh on […]
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Free Iain Banks Event, Edinburgh, 28 Sept 2011
Iain Banks will be taking part in reading event at the University of Edinburgh next Wednesday, 28th September. The event has been organised by the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of […]
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Iain Banks on Channel 5’s Gadget Show, 23 Sept 2011
Iain Banks will be appearing on The Gadget Show on Channel 5 on Friday 23rd September at 20:00. From RadioTimes.com: “Season 16 Episode 6 sees Suzi Perry and Ortis Deley create their own interactive e-books, […]
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Iain Banks at Get Moray Reading Book Festival
Iain Banks will be one of the major names appearing at this year’s Get Moray Reading Book Festival, which runs from 21st – 24th September. Iain will be appearing at 19.00 on Thursday 22nd. More […]
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Banks for World Book Night
The Wasp Factory has made it onto the top 100 long-list for World Book Night. If you’re as keen as we are to see a Banks book on the final list of 25 that will […]
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Live Iain Banks Webchat, 13.00 BST today, Friday 8th July
Stuck for something to do this lunchtime, Banks fans? Here you go… The Guardian is holding a live webchat with the man himself at 13.00 hours today. “When we asked you whom you’d like to […]
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Iain [M] Banks at the 2011 Edinburgh Book Festival
The 2011 Edinburgh Book Festival programme has been published and from it we learn that Iain Banks will be appearing at the RBS Main Theatre on Thursday 18th August, from 8.00pm – 9.00pm in an […]
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Use of Weapons tops ‘Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made’ poll
UK-based tech news website The Register has been running an online poll, asking it’s readers to nominate the ‘best sci-fi films never made‘; books that have so far, somehow, been over-looked by Hollywood’s movie moguls […]
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Iain [M] Banks Events in June 2011
Iain will be out and about in June to support the paperback publication of Surface Detail and the appearances page of the site has been updated with details of the following events: Friday 3rd June: […]
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Iain Banks at Word 2011, Aberdeen, May 13th
Iain Banks will be appearing at this year’s Word, the University of Aberdeen Writers Festival, on Friday 13th May at 7.00 p.m. Tickets for the event, priced £8 (£6 concessions), go on sale on Monday […]
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Iain Banks on Desert Island Discs, August 1997
The BBC iPlayer archive has dug up Iain Banks’ guest appearance on the Desert Island Discs show, from way back in August 1997. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer to hear presenter Sue Lawley quiz Iain on what he […]
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Iain Banks Interviewed for Open University
Iain Banks has been interviewed by Derek Neale, Open University lecturer in Creative Writing, for the OU’s OpenLearn website. Here’s the video recording of the interview (available via YouTube) which took place at the Cheltenham […]
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