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Iain Banks

Iain Banks is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under his birth name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his unofficial middle name Menzies to differentiate between the genres.

Banks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. Banks studied English, philosophy, and psychology at the University of Stirling.

Bibliography

• The Wasp Factory (1984)
• Walking on Glass (1985)
• The Bridge (1986)
• Espedair Street (1987) – adapted for BBC radio in 1998 (directed by Dave Batchelor).
• Canal Dreams (1989)
• The Crow Road (1992) – adapted for BBC TV in 1996 (directed by Gavin Millar).
• Complicity (1993) – filmed in 2000 (directed by Gavin Millar), retitled Retribution for its US DVD/video release.
• Whit (1995)
• A Song of Stone (1997)
• The Business (1999)
• Dead Air (2002)
• The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007)
• Transition (2009) - to be published in the US as Iain M. Banks