Iain Banks has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is The Wasp Factory.
The Wasp Factory
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The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. "Two years after I killed Blyth, I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage that I was going through." Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just 16, and unconventional, to say the least.
©2007 Hachette Audio (P)2007 Hachette Audio
Raw Spirit
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In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author lain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland. His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account.
©2003 Iain Banks (P)2004 W. F. Howes Ltd
Complicity
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Complicity n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act. A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit.…
©1993 Iain Banks (P)2013 Hachette Digital
HiBrow: World Book Night 2012
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A celebration of adult literature and reading. The whole book industry, including booksellers, librarians and publishers, were invited come together and pick out their favourite titles to be included the final list of 25 books by authors from the UK and Ireland. The final list included fiction, poetry and memoirs, among others. There were some best sellers, some classics and some lesser known. Interviews with Rupert Everett, Kathy Lette, Colin Salmon, Akala, Edna O'Brien, Martina Cole, Monica Ali, Iain Banks, Jon Ronson, David Nicholls, Sarah Waters, DBC Pierre, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier, Jude Kelly, Owen Teale and Meg Rosoff.
©2012 One Media iP Ltd (P)2018 One Media iP Ltd
Bedenke Phlebas
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Der erste Band des "Kultur"-Zyklus, endlich als ungekürzte Lesung. In ferner Zukunft haben die Maschinen entschieden, eine perfekte Gesellschaft zu bauen - die "Kultur". Eine Gesellschaft, die alle Völker der Galaxis vereinen soll. Doch nicht alle wollen sich dieser Gesellschaftsform unterwerfen, die schon bald Gefahr läuft, totalitäre Züge anzunehmen. Der Gestaltwandler Bora Horza Gobuchul erhält den Auftrag, eine hochentwickelte künstliche Intelligenz, die sich auf den Planeten Schars Welt zurückgezogen hat, zu finden und gefangen zu nehmen. Ihm dicht auf den Fersen ist eine Agentin der "Kultur", die schöne Perosteck Balveda. Bald findet sich Horza zwischen den sich bekämpfenden Fronten wieder und die Grenzen zwischen seiner und der Identität der Personen, deren Aussehen er annimmt, verschwimmen zunehmend...
©2019 Heyne Verlag. Übersetzung von Rosemarie Hundertmarck (P)2019 Der Hörverlag