"Banks is unsurpassed at presenting clear, small-scale, central images, with behind them looming shapes in chiaroscuro. He convinces you, also, that this is the way the world really is."
Times Literary Supplement

Chaired by Professor Ian Campbell

Banks read from and discussed The Steep Approach to Garbadale, the most recent work of fiction from this master storyteller and his twelfth as Iain Banks (his tenth as Iain M Banks, was published in 2008). The author of bestsellers The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road as well as The Algebraist and the Culture series, The Steep Approach to Garbadale has been described as his best book in years. A very entertaining Q&A session followed with Banks discussing the veracity of news that he'd destroyed his British passport in protest of Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq.

Thursday 19 July 2007
The Sanctuary, Augustine's, Edinburgh

Iain Banks's website