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Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y’br... -
Stone's Fall_ A Novel - Iain Pears
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. British author Pears matches the brilliance of his bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) with this intricate historical novel, whi.... -
Matter - Iain M. Banks
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two ... -
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevit... -
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.On a backward world with six moons, an alert... -
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. 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... -
Excession - Iain M. 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... -
Espresso Tales - Alexander Hanchett Smith; Iain
From Publishers WeeklyOnce again McCall Smith fixes his telescope on the windows of 44 Scotland Street, the converted Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh that provided the title for hi... -
Drink - Iain Gately
A spirited look at the history of alcohol from the dawn of civilization to the twenty first century For better or worse, alcohol has helped shape our civilization. Throughout histo... -
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
SUMMARY:"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, plane...