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A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy
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 anc ...Show more
Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy
Sharrow was once a warrior-spy and leader of a combat team. Living in a state of semi-retirement, she suddenly found herself the target of the Huhsz, a religious cult, and realised that she had to find and reform her old team if she had any hope of survival. By the author of the "Culture" sequence.
Canal Dreams by Iain Banks
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
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 fla ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Crow Road by Iain Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be deat ...Show more
Dead Air by Iain Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. 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 nothin ...Show more
Feersum Endjinn SF Masterwork by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
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 ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: good
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, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means ...Show more
Poems by Iain Banks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Description: Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. ...Show more