The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Author(s): Iain Banks
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 wants to buy the Wopulds out. Young renegade 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 bewitching cousin and teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - at Garbadale, their highland castle? Full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE is Iain Banks' most compelling novel since THE CROW ROAD.
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Winner of The Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction 2007.
** 'The most imaginative British novelist of his generation' THE TIMES For DEAD AIR: **'A Buchanesque adventure yarn set in 21st century London' THE TIMES **'A thrilling read, it's a dazzlingly clever, edgy, suspenseful book' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.
General Fields
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- : Little Brown
- : Little, Brown
- : 0.526167
- : 01 February 2007
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Iain Banks
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.914
- : very good
- : 400
- : Modern fiction