As eighteen-year-old Kit's father is dying, he and several old friends with ulterior motives gather together for one last time, but what Kit really wants is to know the identity of his mother.
A reissue of Iain Banks' second novel—three separate stories which unfold to come intricately and masterfully together Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from t
A reissue of?Iain Banks'?second novel?three separate stories which unfold to?come intricately?and masterfully?together?Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from t
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder.And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated,
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of a fabulous new novel by the author of Matter and The Wasp Factory The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-ye
A reissue of Banks's 1986 Kafkaesque modern classicThe 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 t
A reissue of Iain Banks's compelling 1989 political thrillerHisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly, and so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal.
A reissue of Banks's funny, sad, compelling tale of a washed-up rock starDaniel Weir used to be a famous—not to say infamous—rock star. Maybe he still is. At 31 he has been both a brilliant failure an
'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less o
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of a fabulous new novel by the author of Matter and The Wasp Factory The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!
A European nation not unlike Bosnia: armed forces roam the lawless land where dark columns of smoke rise up from the surrounding farms and houses. The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle
Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate
