Iain Banks
By the Author
Complicity
'Ingenious, daring and brilliant' Guardian COMPLICITY N. 1. THE FACT OF BEING AN ACCOMPLICE, ESP. IN A CRIMINAL ACT A few spliffs, a spot of…
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The Crow Road
'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my…
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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…
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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',…
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The Quarry
'A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel' Independent A dying…
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Transition
'A book that makes you look at the world around you in a different light... properly thrilling' Independent on Sunday Imagine a world that is…
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The Steep Approach To Garbadale
'As good as anything Banks has ever written, if not better' Sunday Telegraph After years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his…
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A Song Of Stone
'Exhilarating... a work of imagination and arresting originality' Sunday Telegraph The war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupants the troubles are…
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Whit
'Fierce contemporaneity, an acrobat imagination, social comment, sardonic wit... the peculiar sub-culture of cult religion is a natural for Banks' The Times A little knowledge…
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The Wasp Factory
'A gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality' Financial Times 'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different…
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The Business
'A poisoned bonbon, a bitter fairy tale' Independent Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation.…
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Dead Air
'A deeply satirical and thought-provoking thriller' Sunday Express A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment…
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Espedair Street
'Charming, sad, comic... the funniest, truest rock biopic yet' Observer Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star.…
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Canal Dreams
'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday Times Hisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe…
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The Bridge
'A stunning book. Banks' powerful imagination is joined to a rare ability to be truly funny while exploring a nightmare world' Sunday Times A man…
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Walking On Glass
'Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents' Daily Telegraph Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma…