Iain Banks: 45 books

Book cover of Poems
by Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015

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 selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. Banks...
Book cover of Raw Spirit

Raw Spirit

In Search of the Perfect Dram

by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

As a native of Scotland, bestselling author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt. Visiting some of the world's most famous distilleries and also some of its smallest and most obscure ones, Banks embarks...
Book cover of The Bridge
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

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 across...
Book cover of The Steep Approach to Garbadale
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

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 renegade Alban,...
Book cover of Der Algebraist
by Iain Banks
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Wer die Wurmlöcher beherrscht, beherrscht die Galaxis Um die riesigen Distanzen im All zu überwinden, wurde ein Netzwerk aus Wurmlochkanälen geschaffen, und nur wer den Algebraisten – die Formel für die Wurmlochverbindungen – besitzt, kontrolliert dieses Netzwerk. Kein Wunder also,...
Book cover of Die Wespenfabrik
by Iain Banks
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2015

Protagonist Frank Cauldham, 16 Jahre alt, lebt mit seinem wahnsinnigen Vater in einem vereinsamten Haus im schottischen Hochland. Abseits familiärer Behütetheit entwickelt Frank seine eigene Fantasiewelt der Grausamkeiten und der Bestrafungen, eine von Ritualen und Totems bestimmte Gegenrealität....
Book cover of The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered...
Book cover of Stonemouth

Stonemouth

A Novel

by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

A desperate young man becomes entangled with a Scottish crime family in this “brilliant, irresistible” novel from the author of The Wasp Factory (The New York Times). Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, Scotland. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth has a beach that can be beautiful...
Book cover of Espedair Street
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

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 (however long that turns out to be). Daniel Weir has...
Book cover of Walking on Glass
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

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 his life.' Graham...
Book cover of Canal Dreams
by Iain Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

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 the atmosphere is...
Book cover of Bedenke Phlebas
by Iain Banks
Language: German
Release Date: April 21, 2014

In ferner Zukunft haben die Maschinen entschieden, eine perfekte Gesellschaft zu bauen. Eine Gesellschaft, die alle intelligenten Spezies der Galaxis vereinen soll. Doch nicht alle wollen sich dieser Gesellschaftsform unterwerfen ... Der Formwandler Bora Horza Gobuchul bekommt den Auftrag, eine hochentwickelte...
Book cover of Vor einem dunklen Hintergrund
by Iain Banks
Language: German
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Gnadenlose Jagd Sharrow war einst Anführerin einer schlagkräftigen Kampftruppe in einem kleinen Handelskrieg. Sie lebt auf dem Planeten Golter im Exil, wo ein Glasstrand noch von älteren Kämpfen zeugt. An diesem Strand bemerkt sie, dass sie von den Huhsz verfolgt wird, einer fanatischen...
Book cover of Krieg der Seelen
by Iain Banks
Language: German
Release Date: December 12, 2011

Seit Jahrzehnten tobt ein Krieg, der über das Leben nach dem Tod entscheidet Wenn der Tod nicht mehr das Ende ist, weil jedes Bewusstsein digital gespeichert wird, wenn die Massenspeicher von Himmel und Hölle zum Angriff rüsten, wenn eine junge Frau für ihre Rache die Grenzen zwischen Raum...
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