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1	Consider Phlebas more books like this by Iain M Banks The outcome of a massive intergalactic war between two religiously and morally opposed enemies depends partly on the success of a search-and-rescue mission led by a disgruntled spy and a crew of loosely allied mercenaries. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Player of Games more books like this by Iain M Banks From the author of "Consider Phlebas", this is a story of one of the greatest game-players the culture has ever produced. Respected and rarely beaten, he is successful at almost everything he attempts. Feeling unfulfilled he asks whose job it is to find something that might challenge him. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £4.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Wasp Factory more books like this by Iain Banks Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Excession more books like this by Iain Banks Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. 'Banks is a phenomenon...wildly successful, fearlessly creative' William Gibson 'Thrilling, affecting and comic ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Inversions more books like this by Iain M Banks Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas," is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Use of Weapons more books like this by Iain M Banks The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe is one of the Culture's foremost agents, solving planetary problems through intrigue and dirty tricks. In this book the author explores the universe of the Culture, which he has written about previously in "The State of the Art" and "Consider Phlebas". see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Algebraist more books like this by Iain M Banks It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The state of the art more books like this by Iain M Banks The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to ... see all copies from £1.67! new only from £7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Matter more books like this by Iain M Banks The Culture is a far-future society of seemingly limitless resources and infinite technological possibilities. Yet the Culture is far from perfect, and it is still subject to brutal wars, political upheaval and intrusions from beyond the edges of known space. see all copies from £5.68! new only from £14.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The crow road more books like this by Iain Banks Written by the author of "The Wasp Factory", this novel describes rites of passage in a complex but enduring Scottish family. His central character's preoccupations with death, sex, drink, God, illegal substances and the motor car are embedded in his descriptions of the Scottish landscape. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The bridge more books like this by Iain Banks 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 carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Look to Windward more books like this by Iain M. Banks It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. For the Hub Mind, overseer of the massive bracelet world, its arrival is ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Complicity more books like this by Iain M Banks An exploration of the morality of greed, corruption and violence. When several prominent people die mysteriously, the police beat a path to the door of an Edinburgh journalist known for his drug abuse and total commitment to computer games. By the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "The Crow Road". see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	A Song of Stone more books like this by Iain M Banks 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, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. However, the lieutenant of an ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Whit more books like this by Iain M Banks 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 Honour at the Luskentyrian's four- yearly Festival of Love - disappears after ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.41! \| first editions
16 view cover	Canal Dreams more books like this by Iain M. Banks 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 long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Business. more books like this by Iain Banks From one of Britain's most celebrated authors comes this fast-paced and wickedly satirical novel -- already a top bestseller in England -- about a highly secretive, centuries-old organization bent on global domination. From Silicon Valley to Scotland's Silicon Glen, Kate Telman trawls the globe in search of opportunities for her place of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Walking on glass more books like this by Iain Banks Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss is forced to play impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Against a Dark Background more books like this by Iain Banks Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Feersum endjinn more books like this by Iain Banks Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt...And everything is about to change...For this is the time of the encroachment ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Steep Approach to Garbadale more books like this by Iain Banks Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business 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 firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Raw Spirit more books like this by Iain M Banks In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland. His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £14.78! \| first editions
23 view cover	Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved more books like this by Iain M. Banks Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to fashion, she does however rejoice in some neat healing powers, a way with animals and the exalted status of Elect of God of the Luskentyrian Sect. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £69.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Classic Glamour Photography more books like this by Iain M. Banks In this behind-the-scenes book, top professionals describe how they create glamour photographs. They give practical advice on equipment, lighting and composing techniques, and executing a shoot, and their stunning photographs illustrate the best of the best. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £53.58! \| first editions
25	Feersum Endjinn more books like this by Lain Banks, Iain M. Banks The fifth novel by Banks to be set within the "Culture," a vast, rather bizarre utopian galactic community. As the last of his lives draws to a close, a near-immortal searches for the being responsible for his most recent death. see all copies from £6.35!

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