Iain Banks

Iain Banks is one of the UK’s best selling writers and a powerful voice in literary fiction. He came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984, and his first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He has continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks).
His novels have attracted the attention of filmmakers and broadcasters. The BBC successfully adapted his 1992 novel, The Crow Road, into a four-part television series and Espedair Street (1987) was produced as a BBC Radio 4 Series, for which Banks wrote the accompanying music and lyrics. Iain Banks won Celebrity Mastermind in 2005 with his specialist subject ‘malt whisky and the distilleries of Scotland’. He is now acclaimed as ‘one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation’.
He’ll be talking about his new novel, Stonemouth. Tough, funny, fast-paced and touching, the book cracks open adolescence, love, brotherhood and vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other.