The Steep Approach To Garbadale by Iain Banks

The Steep Approach To Garbadale by Iain Banks

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! ? now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming family gathering ? part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting ? convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings an inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet ready to see Sophie, his beautiful, enchanting cousin and teenage love, at the EGM? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective for ever.

** '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.

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ISBN 13	9780316731058
ISBN 10	0316731056
Title	The Steep Approach To Garbadale
Author	Iain Banks
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2007-01-01
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Short-listed for The Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction 2007
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