Visit of Iain Banks to Bath Literature Festival
Sat 3rd March, 2007
THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE
Published in the UK by Little, Brown in March 2007,
Iain's new novel is called The Steep Approach to Garbadale.
Iain is appearing at the following events to answer questions and read from the book.
Saturday 3rd 8.30-9.30pm Bath Literature Festival, Guildhall 01225 462231
The locative version of the Crow Road will be sho..
Day 4: 15th July 2006
Sun 16th July, 2006
An early start took us to Crinan and views of Gallanach bay from across the sound. At the start of the Crinan canal a glorious old steam “puffer” was moored in rusting state. Then a final trip to the nearby loch where the police drag for drugs and discover Rory’s body.
We set off for Glasgow airport with plenty of video ..
Day 3:14th July 2006
Sun 16th July, 2006
By twisting road to Oban filming Fergus’s journey to Connell.
Oban is larger than remembered, with a modern ferry terminal and overlooked by McCaig’s round folly. Unfortunately the glassworks closed three year’s before-and was clearly the model for the Gallanach glassworks. As to crematoria -the nearest i..
Day 1: 12th July 2006
Sun 16th July, 2006
Day 1
Flew up from a sunny Bristol to a rain-soaked and very dreeck Glasgow Airport. Crammed all our kit, luggage and over-wrapped bodies into a six seater ..
Fact and Fiction
Sat 8th July, 2006
We should take Banks's accurate correlations to landscape with a pinch of salt:
"for the purposes of the geographical and historical background in my novel "The Crow Road", it was torn in half; I'd decided I wanted to locate the fictional town of Gallanach near Crinan on the mainland. I needed the place to have a deep water port with easy acess to the Atlantic and I didn't want to edit out the Corryvrecken so I blithely cut Jura in two. You get to do this sort of thing when you are a writer."
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Iain Banks
Sat 8th July, 2006
About the author
Born in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1954, Iain Banks was an only child surrounded by a multitude of aunts, uncles and cousins. He published his first novel, the controversial Wasp Factory, in 1984. It was successful enough for him to give up his day job and to write full-time. Since then he has divided his writing between science fiction, under the name Iain M. Banks, and mainstream fiction, both of which have met with critical and popular acclaim. The Crow Road was published in 1992 a..
First Steps
Fri 7th July, 2006
This is the first entry for a Blog documenting a "First" - the logging of a locative journey through a fictional landscape. "The Crow Road" is a novel by Iain Banks from 1992. While the Crow Road is a district near Glasgow, it is also a Scottish euphemism for death. This is very much the subject of the novel, also made ..