The Wasp Factory
Title | The Wasp Factory PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Banks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2013-07-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476750246 |
The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
The Wasp Factory
Title | The Wasp Factory PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Banks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1998-09-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684853159 |
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".
A Song of Stone
Title | A Song of Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Banks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 1999-09-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684855364 |
Set in a war-torn country not unlike Bosnia, this internationally bestselling novel concerns a band of soldiers who find refuge in a rural castle.
Espedair Street
Title | Espedair Street PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Banks |
Publisher | Abacus |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0748109900 |
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 turns out to be). Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.
Complicity
Title | Complicity PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Banks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2002-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743200187 |
In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn. By the author of The Wasp Factory.
The Quarry
Title | The Quarry PDF eBook |
Author | Iain M. Banks |
Publisher | Redhook |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2013-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316281840 |
Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time. "Uncle" Paul's a media lawyer now; Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother; Haze is still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce, protective Hol is a gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they've all come back because they want something. Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives. Before his father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the mysterious tape they're all looking for. But most of all he wants to stop time and keep his father alive. Fast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, The Quarry is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work.
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
Title | The Journal of Albion Moonlight PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Patchen |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811201445 |
A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.