This is basically Banks' version of The Big Chill: a group of college roommates meet up after many years to comment and reflect on their lives together and apart. Banks uses Kit, an OCD 18-year-old child of the oldest roommate, Guy, as the viewpoint character. Guy happens to be in the last stages ...
Originally reviewed at almightylewry.wordpress.comI have recently been trying different authors and picked this one up, I wanted to try Iain Banks but didn’t fancy giving Matter a go, I wanted something more ………manageable. I found some great quotes in it and there was a definitely LOL moment during...
This is one of those odd books that I found enjoyable to read at the time, but when I put it down, I lapsed into so-what? apathy. The premise is a fairly trite one. A mid-twenties man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, and spends the time reminiscing about growing up, being astonished at t...
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
Stonemouth is a stuffy small Scottish town, dominated by two competing, although not hostile, local gangster families. This is where the unbelievably annoying, egocentric and know-it-all protagonist, Stewart Gilmour, returns to attend the funeral of the old head of one of these families and to, unin...
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
Children can be bad when the parent is a loopy themselves. This is one of those stories with such possibilities.Frances was a normal kid, maybe. With three murders under his belt and his older brother in the looney house after setting neighborhood dogs on fire. Frances is not even a teenager yet and...
Wow. Books that make you challenge your assumptions can often be hard hitting, but a book that leads you to challenge all the assumptions you built up while reading, in the final chapter? This blew my mind.
bookshelves: radio-4, spring-2012, fradio, published-2012, gangsters, britain-scotland, recreational-drugs Read from March 17 to 31, 2012 Book at Bedtime : Stewart Gilmour returns home to Stonemouth after fleeing five years ago.bbc synopsis - Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five yea...
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