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The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Iain Banks Read by Peter Kenny

The Steep Approach to Garbadale

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ISBN:
9781405501255

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel.

The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire - now a wildly successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp want to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion - but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his teenage love, who’ll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - in their highland castle?

A book of great warmth, humanity and ingenuity, THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE is Iain Banks' finest novel since THE CROW ROAD.

Reviews

  • 'As good as anything Iain Banks has ever written, if not better. It is the story of one young man's getting of wisdom, an oblique but observant history of Britain from the 1980s to the present day, and a great game of consequences' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
  • 'The fates of his characters are genuinely affecting. He achieves this by a broad adherence to a thriller structure. And by an empathetic brilliance' Jonathan Meades, EVENING STANDARD

Audiobook (CD): £24.99

Published 01/03/2007

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