Iain Banks's classic novel, reissued with a striking new cover
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Iain Banks
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 42 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1995–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Crow Roadin käsikirjoitus. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
42 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1995–2025.
* Paperback reissue of a modern 'Pilgrim's Progress' - Iain Banks' WHIT.
Iain Banks' debut novel, The Wasp Factory, caused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1984 and became an immediate classic
* Contemporary - and how! - novel by 'the most imaginative British novelist of his generation' - The Times
Iain Banks's classic novel reissued with a striking new cover
'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, 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 as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello... Praise for Iain Banks:'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times'His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers' Ken MacLeod, Guardian'His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent' Neil Gaiman'An exceptional wordsmith' Scotsman
'A stunning book. Banks' powerful imagination is joined to a rare ability to be truly funny while exploring a nightmare world' Sunday TimesA man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge - a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future, fuse. Who is this man? Where is he? Is he more dead than alive? Or has he never been so alive before? Praise for Iain Banks:'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times'His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers' Ken MacLeod, Guardian'His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent' Neil Gaiman'An exceptional wordsmith' Scotsman
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 gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.
Paperback reissue of Iain Banks' masterly novel THE CROW ROAD
'Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents' Daily TelegraphGraham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him. But he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart. But their separate courses are set for collision. Praise for Iain Banks:'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times'His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers' Ken MacLeod, Guardian'His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent' Neil Gaiman'An exceptional wordsmith' Scotsman
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a modern classic: 'ingenious, daring and brilliant' - Guardian
Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet.
Iain Banks debutroman är den våldsamma, groteska och svart komiska berättelsen om den psykopatiske tonåringen och flerfaldige mördaren Frank som bor tillsammans med sin pappa på en ö utanför Skottlands kust. Där ägnar han sig åt makabra, rituella djuroffer - titeln Getingfabriken syftar på en avancerad anordning som involverar levande getingar - medan han inväntar sin halvbror Eric som är på rymmen från ett mentalsjukhus. Boken väckte starka reaktioner när den kom ut 1984. En del betraktade den som ett smaklöst frosseri i grymhet och våld, medan den på andra håll lyftes fram som en storslagen debut. "Briljant, oemotståndlig, fängslande", skrev till exempel New York Times recensent. När den brittiska dagstidningen The Independent ett antal år senare valde ut århundradets 100 bästa romaner fanns Getingfabriken med på listan. IAIN BANKS föddes 1954 i Dunfermline i Skottland. Efter den stora uppmärksamhet han väckte med Getingfabriken [The Wasp Factory, 1984] har han skrivit en lång rad böcker, dels mainstreamromaner, dels internationellt storsäljande science fiction-romaner under namnvariationen Iain M. Banks. 2005 tilldelades han science fiction-genrens finaste pris, The Hugo Award, för romanen The Algebraist. Om Getingfabriken:"Makaber, bisarr och omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig." FINANCIAL TIMES"En mäktig fantasi har anlänt på den litterära scenen." MAIL ON SUNDAY"Läs den om du vågar." DAILY EXPRESS
AUDIO-CD * The long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivalled Iain Banks - a high-definition, hyper-real apocalyptic fable for our times
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 and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.
"Sinä aamuna isoäiti räjähti." Tällä dramaattisella lauseella Iain Banks käynnistää värikkäästä McHoanien suvusta kertovan monipolvisen tarinansa, jonka kuluessa viski virtaa, tunteet kuohuvat ja huumori räiskyy. Päähenkilö on nuori Prentice McHoan, joka rakastuu, pettyy, kokee menetyksen ja aikuistumisen tuskan, löytää lopulta sen oikean – ja selvittää kaiken ohella sukunsa synkkiä salaisuuksia ja Crow Roadin käsikirjoituksen mysteeriä. Romaanista sovitettu BBC:n TV-sarja esitettiin TV1:ssä syksyllä 1998. "Banksin tähän mennessä paras romaani." – Independent on Sunday "Banks on jumalten lahja." – Trendi
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO -- he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two stories begin to merge, Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the killer. When the arms dealer whom Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before Cameron can even put pen to paper and the brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold out at the expense of his workers finds himself permanently unemployable, the police become convinced of Cameron's guilt, as do half his friends and colleagues, forcing Cameron to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
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 and its occupants, a young lord and lady, the trouble is just beginning. Fearing an invasion of soldiers, the amorous couple takes to the road with the other refugees, disguised in rags. But the brutal female lieutenant of an outlaw band of guerrillas has other ideas. Just hours into their escape, the fleeing aristocrats are delivered back to the castle, where, now prisoners in their own home, they become pawns in the lieutenant's dangerous game of desire, deceit, and death. "A Song of Stone" demonstrates Iain Banks's unique ability to combine gripping narrative with a soaring, voyaging imagination. This noir fable confirms his reputation as the master of things dark and debauched. Singular, haunting, and viciously wry, "A Song of Stone" is a tour de force of contemporary fiction.