Iain Banks

“Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy”—Iain Banks was born in 1954 in Fife, Scotland. He sprang to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel The Wasp Factory in 1984.

Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with a deluge of fiction and science fiction—“written with enormous energy, crunchy wit and more curves than an alpine road”.

For science fiction—read Iain M. Banks—“the standard by which other science fiction is touched”—the author of Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987.

Acclaimed as one of the Best of Young British Writers in 1993, Banks’ number one bestseller The Crow Road was adopted for television in 1996.

Iain Banks’ work includes: Walking on Glass, The Bridge, Canal Dreams, Complicity, A Song of Stone, The Business, Dead Air, Use of Weapons, Excession, Inversions, Matter, and Transition.

“I love writing and can’t imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life—so if it had been difficult—I wouldn’t be doing it.”