Iain Banks (12 kníh)
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Iain Banks Dead Air ENIain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesn't work, a blown loudspeaker,…
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Iain Banks Píseň kamene CZTemný, antiutopicky laděný román populárního, dnes již kultovního skotského spisovatele, je příběhem vášně, zvrácené lásky, zrady a smrti. Děj je zasazen v blíže neurčené době v bezejmenné zemi, vysávané občanskou válkou. Krajinou se potulují partyzánské skupinky a zabíjejí a plení na každém kroku. Vtrhnou i do poklidného a odloučeného života dvojice hlavních hrdinů, Abela a Morgan, kteří obývají rodinné šlechtické…
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Iain Banks Quarry ENThe new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory. Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university…
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Iain Banks Stonemouth ENPitched between THE CROW ROAD and THE WASP FACTORY, STONEMOUTH is set in a small town north of Aberdeen and involves two warring crime families. Our hero was run out of town five years ago and now he's back for a family funeral - some closeted skeletons are about to appear!
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Iain Banks Stonemouth ENStewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with it's five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer…
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Iain Banks The Quarry ENThe new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory. Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university…
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Iain Banks Transition ENImagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable assassin who journeys…
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Iain Banks Transition ENImagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable assassin who journeys…
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Iain Banks Vosí továrnaŠestnáctiletý Frank žije na skotském ostrově jen s otcem, vzpomíná na bratra Erika, který skončil v blázinci, a většinu času tráví podivnými rituály a stavbou hrubých zbraní, kterými zabíjí drobná zvířata. Jeho největším vynálezem je ale...
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Iain Banks Vraní ulice CZPonurý skotský bard Iain Banks, jeden z nejoriginálnějších současných britských spisovatelů, přichází tentokrát se ságou rodiny McHoanových a jejích četných temných tajemství. Kromě pátrání po strýčku Rorym, jenž kdysi zmizel za záhadných okolností, poutá pozornost hlavního hrdiny Prentice McHoana hlavně sex, drogy, smrt a otázky po přítomnosti Boží na tomto nešťastném světě - jak ostatně znalce Banksova díla ani v…
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Iain Banks Whit ENA little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing...Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved…
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