Consider Phlebas is the first book in Iain Banks’s well-known “Culture” series of novels. It stars a man carrying out acts of espionage for aliens in a war against a human society of touchy-feely, liberal hedonists. ...
Scottish author Iain Banks talks to Max Walker about the reception of The Wasp Factory, obsessive fans and writing novels that you can't read in the bath
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