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Né en 1954, Écossais pur malt et partisan de l'indépendance de l'Écosse, Iain Banks publie ses romans de littérature générale sous son nom et ses romans de science-fiction sous le pseudonyme de Iain M. Banks. Il est décédé le 9 juin 2013.
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Poems

Iain Banks , Ken Macleod


Little, Brown Book Group

2015-02-16

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Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the...

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Télécharger le livre :  La sonate hydrogène
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Les Gziltes, une civilisation galactique alliée de la Culture depuis dix mille ans mais qui a choisi de ne pas la rejoindre, ont pris la décision collective de suivre la voie empruntée par des millions d'autres civilisations avancées : la Sublimation. Quitter l'espace...

Editeur : Robert Laffont
Parution : 2013-10-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Raw Spirit
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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 an absorbing voyage as interesting to non-drinkers as to true whisky connoisseurs, sci-fi and...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Quarry
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Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2013-06-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Stonemouth
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Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Transition
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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...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bridge
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The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him.Does it matter?Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams... Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crow Road
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'His masterpiece' Jay Rayner'One of the best opening lines of any novel... a warm, witty and ultimately very poignant book' GuardianAn outstanding contemporary novel, about which readers say:'Banks' masterpiece''Iain Banks at his best''Read this immediately''A story...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Whit
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A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager.When her cousin Morag - Guest of...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Espedair Street
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Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  A Song of Stone
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The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Steep Approach to Garbadale
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Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair 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...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Wasp Factory
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'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' Telegraph'One of the top 100 novels of the century' Independent 'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' New York Times'Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down' Financial Times'Read it if you dare' Daily...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Walking on Glass
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Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut.Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Business
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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Dead Air
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Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Canal Dreams
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Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Complicity
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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a modern classic: 'ingenious, daring and brilliant' - GuardianCOMPLICITYn. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal actA few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-09-04

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