Iain M. Banks

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents....

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh....

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported....

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space....

Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'.

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

Consider Phlebas: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Consider Phlebas introduces listeners to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war and morality....

It is 4034 AD. Humanity lives among the stars. Fassin Taak will be lucky if he makes it to the end of the year....

The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art....

In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war....

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time....

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....

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 ferner Zukunft haben die Maschinen entschieden, eine perfekte Gesellschaft zu bauen - die "Kultur". Eine Gesellschaft, die alle Völker...

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action....

In a world renowned even 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 who could clear his name....

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. And it begins with a murder....

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed....

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....