The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Author:   Iain Banks ,  Peter Kenny
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Edition:   Unabridged
ISBN:  

9781405503211


Pages:   720
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Format:   Downloadable audio file
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Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire - now a wildly successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp want to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion - but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - in their highland castle? A book of great warmth, humanity and ingenuity, THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE is Iain Banks' finest novel since THE CROW ROAD.

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Author:   Iain Banks ,  Peter Kenny
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Hachette Digital
Edition:   Unabridged
ISBN:  

9781405503211


ISBN 10:   1405503211
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Downloadable audio file
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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** 'Compellingly, beautifully crafted ... A fascinating read' NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE ** 'Banks begins his most consistent book since THE CROW ROAD with slaight-of-hand tricks displaying the master in rude form ... These shifts in voice are so perfect, so clean and witty that when Alban comes to the fore, we feel he's one of is ... the maturity of voice and verve if the writing mean GARBADALE matches anything in the Banks canon' WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY ** 'A novel that could easily replace THE CROW ROAD as his career highlight' MAXIM ** 'Banks still has the ability to make the reader smile with pleasure' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY ** 'Banks is at his best in moments of high drama with extremes of human emotions' OBSERVER ** 'A book of intrigue and humanity. A real page-turner you can't put down, from one of the masters' LOOK ** 'Full of Banks' familiar magic and easily rivals his brilliant book THE CROW ROAD' NEWS OF THE WORLD ** 'Banks' work has grown smoother ... but it still packs an intoxicating kick' FT MAGAZINE ** 'Banks is unsurpassed at presenting clear, small-scale, central images, with behind them looming shapes in chiaroscuro. He convinces you, also, that this is the way the world really is' TLS ** 'Still a master. Banks's evocation of the tortures and travails of first love is moving and lyrical' INDEPENDENT ** 'A page-turning family saga ... Banks's mix of popularism and politics offers up enjoyable food for thought' METRO ** 'Banks may make all kinds of demands as far as the structure of his fiction is concerned, but, taken sentence by sentence, he is unrivalled for clarity and pleasure ... His most accomplished book since THE CROW ROAD' LITERARY REVIEW ** 'There are so many larger-than-life characters in this wonderful novel ... As good as anything Iain Banks has ever written, if not better. It is the story of one young man's getting of wisdom, an oblique but observant history of Britain from the 1980s to the present day, and a great game of consequences' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ** 'Nobody can evoke the mindset of a self-obsessed, sexually active, mildly philosophical bloke as convincingly as Banks, and it's terrific to have him back, firing on all cylinders like one of his beloved chipped BMWs' SUNDAY HERALD ** '[Banks's] lightness of touch is marvellous ... There are protracted passages which are majestically realised tours de force ... What Banks serves up is both unanticipated and terrible. The fates of his characters are genuinely affecting. He achieves this by a broad adherence to a thriller structure. And by an empathetic brilliance' Jonathan Meades, EVENING STANDARD


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Author Website:   www.iainbanks.net

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 novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

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Author Website:   www.iainbanks.net

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