Last week I was delighted to spot my book, Well Housed, keeping the best company on a friend's bookshelf 😃

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@BobLefridge @RobynNuthall @paulhellyer thanks! I’m a #IanBanks fan from way back but never read any #HenningMankell - will start asap

The joy and anticipation of starting a new book.

Use Of Weapons - Ian M. Banks

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“Money is a sign of poverty”

Such an important quote wowow

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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 . . .

The Guardian

@bobthomson70 I had read the earlier ones a couple of times - but only read the entire Culture Series in a sort of binge read a couple of years ago. Quite the tour de force.

Oddly, I’ve only read one or two of his Iain Banks non-sci fi

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Blimey, forgot how bleak this was. Even the Culture can behave in terrible human ways.
Kept mixing it up with real life now :(
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@Allyduncs we'll see what #IanBanks has to say about that 😂
@Allyduncs , Alan left me this to #read, #IanBanks quest for the perfect dram
@rek in the Culture every Mind rewrote its own OS when still in the crèche. #IanBanks