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Iain Banks
By the Author
Poems
Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041',…
The Quarry
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is…
Stonemouth
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though…
Transition
A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the…
The Steep Approach To Garbadale
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on…
Canal Dreams
Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal.…
Whit
A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion,…
Walking On Glass
Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were…
The Bridge
The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does…
Dead Air
Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a…
Espedair Street
Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a…
A Song Of Stone
The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each…
The Business
Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial…
The Wasp Factory
Named 'one of the top 100 novels of the century' by the Independent, The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing and darkly comic look…
The Crow Road
'His masterpiece' Jay Rayner 'One of the best opening lines of any novel... a warm, witty and ultimately very poignant book' Guardian An outstanding contemporary…
Complicity
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a modern classic: 'ingenious, daring and brilliant' - Guardian COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in…