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‘THE MOST IMAGINATIVE NOVELIST OF HIS GENERATION’


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Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the
publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He gained enormous
popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction
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THE HYDROGEN SONATA


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The tenth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
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SURFACE DETAIL


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The ninth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
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still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing
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MATTER


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The eighth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
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a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for
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THE PLAYER OF GAMES


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The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
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thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau
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EXCESSION


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The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared
in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a
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AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND


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A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a
master of modern science fiction. Sharrow was once the leader of a
personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in
the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the… Read
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INVERSIONS


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The sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
master of science fiction. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has
more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to
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FEERSUM ENDJINN


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A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a
master of modern science fiction. Count Sessine is about to die for the very
last time... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message
she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...… Read More


LOOK TO WINDWARD


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The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
master of science fiction. It was one of the less glorious incidents of a
long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives
they supported. Now, eight hundred years later,… Read More


THE STATE OF THE ART


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The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes
the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the
growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous
works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast.… Read More


USE OF WEAPONS


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The third Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern
master of science fiction. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of
Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit
the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known…
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THE ALGEBRAIST


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A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a
master of modern science fiction. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the
stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be
fortunate if he makes it to the… Read More


CONSIDER PHLEBAS


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Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination,
from a modern master of science fiction. The war raged across the galaxy.
Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars
themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The
Idirans fought for their… Read More


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THE CROW ROAD


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From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an
outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat
in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to
Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed… Read More


COMPLICITY


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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
a criminal act A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for
tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from… Read More


STONEMOUTH


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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 the last time
Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even
more dangerous than turning up. An estuary… Read More


POEMS


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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', in New Writing
Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was
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THE QUARRY


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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 imminent, Guy gathers
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his death. Paul - the… Read More


THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE


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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 a board game called
Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American
Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young… Read More


TRANSITION


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Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended
between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the
Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse.
Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose…
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A SONG OF STONE


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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 farm and house
supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees,
anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining… Read More


WHIT


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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, the Elect of God of a small
but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager.
When her cousin Morag - Guest of… Read More


THE WASP FACTORY


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'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' Telegraph 'One of
the top 100 novels of the century' Independent
'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' New York Times 'Macabre, bizarre, and
impossible to put down' Financial Times 'Read it if you dare' Daily Express The
Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing,… Read More


THE BUSINESS


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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 inheritance, the character of
The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It
possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo… Read More


THE BRIDGE


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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 it matter? Exploring the bridge
occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which
desperate men drive sealed carriages… Read More


CANAL DREAMS


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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. But Panama is a
country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When
Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before… Read More


ESPEDAIR STREET


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Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still
is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's
made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret
forever… Read More


DEAD AIR


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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 few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly
contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding
breakfast people start dropping fruits from… Read More


WALKING ON GLASS


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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 pale, and nearly too
full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen
anyone or anything quite so beautiful in… Read More

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