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"Iain Banks" (10 results)
Mark Lawson talks to novelist Iain Banks, who also writes science fiction as Iain M. Banks.
Iain Banks talks to James Naughtie and readers about his ground-breaking first novel The Wasp Factory. Recorded at the National Libra...
Iain Banks, one of Scotland's most popular and critically acclaimed authors, died in June 2013. He had revealed in April that he had terminal cancer a...
Sue MacGregor is joined by belated author and critic Robyn Karen, and Radio 1 presenter Huw Stephens to discuss favourite books b...
"The Wasp Factory" a curious and comic first novel by Iain Banks, concerning the macabre obsessions of 16 year old Frank who inhabits a weird wor...
Matthew Bannister on the Scottish novelist Iain Banks - author of The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road - who also wrote science fiction.
Death of Iain Banks, followed by discussion with Ken MacLeod Friend and author.
On the sixteenth of February 1984 a first book by an unknown writer hit the bookshelves. The story of murder and mayhem told by sixteen year o...
The readers and booksellers of Wigtown discuss Scottish classic The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks, and suggest some recommende...
Following a public vote Kirsty Wark reveals the top ten countdown leading to the nation's favourite book. Along the way, First Minister Nicol...
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