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The Quarry: an extract from Iain Banks's final novel

In this scene from the late novelist's book, the protagonist, a man living with terminal cancer, looks on the bright side of death"Right then," he says. He sits back in his seat and folds his arms. I...

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Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . ."You know,...

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The Quarry by Iain Banks – review

Iain Banks's death from cancer makes his final novel all the more poignantThe Quarry is a novel about disease, about "fucking cancer", as it's repeatedly described. It's a novel held up against the...

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Iain Banks was unaware he had cancer before writing The Quarry, says widow

Adele Hartley responds to inaccuracies circulating about the late author's final bookIain Banks's widow Adele Hartley has spoken out to correct assumptions that the late author chose to write his final...

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Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup

Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the GuardianThe life and works of the...

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Books review roundup: The Quarry, Modernity Britain: Opening the Box...

What the critics thought of The Quarry by Iain Banks, Modernity Britain: Opening the Box 1957-1959 by David Kynaston and Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfield"That, in the end, is Iain Banks's gift to us...

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The Quarry: Iain Banks – digested read

John Crace reduces Iain Banks's last novel, about a boy coming to terms with his dying father, to a more manageable 600 wordsMost things fit into some sort of spectrum. Mine stretches from "highly...

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Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF

The genre's denser stories can seem rebarbative to 'general readers', but these books tell immediately relevant, compelling talesScience fiction is all around us, from clandestine electronic...

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Asteroid named after Scottish author Iain Banks

Massachusetts scientist Dr Galache successfully applies for asteroid name change after meeting author at book signingFans of the late Scottish author, Iain Banks, now only have to look towards the...

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Guardian Books podcast: Edinburgh International Book Festival preview

As the curtain rises on the 30th edition of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we talk to its director Nick Barley about how he has put together a 16-day marathon involving 800 events. He...

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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood – review

With its Pigoons and ChickieNobs, does the conclusion of Margaret Atwood's SF trilogy show her at her best?The late Iain Banks complained a few years back about "literary" authors doing what their...

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When favourite authors become an addiction

Some writers are so addictive I find myself tracking down every word they've penned. But which authors do you crave?It's that desperation to have the gleaming hardback, despite the £20 price tag, that...

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Mission impossible: How to turn the Wasp Factory into an opera

Iain Banks's complex debut novel is a brave choice for an opera. Ahead of its Royal Opera House premiere, librettist David Pountney reveals the challenges of adapting it for the stageWhen composer Ben...

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The Wasp Factory – review

Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonThis adaptation of Iain Banks's novel is highly original and visually arresting, but let down by the vocal musicFrank, the teenage psychopathic killer at the...

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The best fiction of 2013

There were mighty tomes from Donna Tartt and Eleanor Catton, pastiches for lovers of Bond and Wodehouse, and a final novel from Iain Banks. We look back at the year's big hitters• The best science...

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Iain Banks remembered by Michelle Hodgson

Michelle Hodgson, once Iain Banks's press officer, recalls the warm friendship she shared with the author for nearly 25 years• See the Observer's obituaries of 2013 in full hereIain Banks didn't laugh...

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Best portraits of 2013 – in pictures

From artists to activists and politicians to personalities, a selection of the best portraits taken by Guardian photographers this yearMee-Lai StoneParis LeesChristopher ThomondDavid LeveneLinda...

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In their own words: literary giants who died this year

Chinua Achebe, Iain Banks, Seamus Heaney, Elmore Leonard and Doris Lessing in quotesChinua Achebe, 82 On history: "There is that great proverb… that until the lions have their own historians, the...

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Iain Banks: a death foretold? - books podcast

John Crace's satirical Digested read columns have become a Guardian institution, reducing the most newsworthy books of the year to an essential 600 words.Here, he takes on Iain Banks's final novel, The...

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The 10 best fictional musicians – in pictures

The most convincing popular music combos on screen and in printDorian Lynskey

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