When I saw that Annabel was hosting a week long celebration of the work of Iain Banks, called BanksRead, I was very keen to join in. Iain Banks was one of my Dads’ favourite writers and his suggestion that I try The Wasp Factory when I was sixteen, has probably had quite the influence on…
Read more No 421 Canal Dreams by Iain Banks for #BanksRead2021
It’s been a log time since I’ve read any Iain Banks, not since I devoured The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity in my early 20’s. His fourth book feels like a departure from his earlier, more experimental novels. Espedair Street tells the story of the Danny Weir, former bass guitarist with the fictional…
Read more No 481 Espedair Street by Iain Banks Book 5 of #20booksofsummer
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Top Ten Tuesday, the weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, but I enjoyed thinking about this week’s topic, Top Ten Literary Debuts. I actually made a list of about 25, so culling it down to 10 was hard. Special mentions should obviously go to…
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