Bücher von Iain Banks

Named 'one of the top 100 novels of the century' by the Independent, The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath Frank is no ordinary sixteen-year-old. He lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a 'gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre, bizarre and...quite impossible to put down' (Financial Times) Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' -New York Times'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' -Telegraph

Iain Banks' masterly novel The Crow Road.

A fascinating journey through Scotland's famous distilleries with legendary author Iain Banks No true Scotsman can resist the allure of the nation's whisky distilleries.

In der fernen Zukunft wird der Traum von der perfekten Gesellschaft zur Gefahr für die Freiheit des EinzelnenIn ferner Zukunft haben die Menschen beschlossen, eine perfekte Gesellschaft zu bauen. Eine Gesellschaft, die alle Völker der Galaxis vereinen soll, wo auch immer sie leben, welcher Religion sie auch angehören mögen. Eine Gesellschaft, die schon bald Gefahr läuft, totalitäre Züge anzunehmen. Und heftigen Widerstand auf den Plan ruft ...

Seit Jahrzehnten tobt ein Krieg, der über das Leben nach dem Tod entscheidetWenn der Tod nicht mehr das Ende ist, weil jedes Bewusstsein digital gespeichert wird, wenn die Massenspeicher von Himmel und Hölle zum Angriff rüsten, wenn eine junge Frau für ihre Rache die Grenzen zwischen Raum und Zeit überwindet und nur ein Mann die größte aller Schlachten verhindern kann - dann entbrennt ein Krieg, der die Grenzen zwischen Realität und den digitalen Welten verschwimmen lässt, bis Leben und Tod an Bedeutung verlieren.

A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?On the Concern's books are Temudjin Oh, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice; and a nameless, faceless torturer known only as the Philosopher. And then there's the renegade Mrs Mulverhill, who recruits rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, hiding out from a dirty past in a forgotten hospital ward. As these vivid, strange and sensuous worlds circle and collide, the implications of turning traitor to the Concern become horribly apparent, and an unstable universe is set on a dizzying course.