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' 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.

** '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 maturit * 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 *

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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EAN	9781405501255
Title	The Steep Approach To Garbadale
Format	Box set Unabridged Audiobook
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By (author)	Iain Banks
Read by	Peter Kenny