Possibly Scotland's most lucrative export since whisky, Iain Banks has written over 20 novels (including in the science fiction genre) which are read widely around the world. Famously left-wing, Iain cut up his passport at the start of the Iraq war in 2003 and sent it to Tony Blair: "I felt...
Iain Banks has made a prolific career out of dividing himself in two, publishing novels such as his classic debut The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road as "Iain Banks" and adding a middle initial as "Iain M Banks" for a separate and very successful strand of hard science fiction. What, then, to m...
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