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- Culture Series, Book 8
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall133
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Performance119
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Story119
In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one, maybe two, people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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nice plot twists
- By Ian Bennett on 08-01-2024
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Culture, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2008
- Language: English
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Excession
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance205
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Story207
The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon'...
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A rollicking Culture Novel
- By Chris O'Neill on 25-02-2016
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Excession
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 5
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2013
- Language: English
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Against a Dark Background
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance59
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Story59
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
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Pompous and boring
- By james gardiner on 02-04-2026
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Against a Dark Background
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2012
- Language: English
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance100
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Story100
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love, and betrayal.
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Not the best
- By stv9007 on 25-09-2019
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2013
- Language: English
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson It is...
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Fantastic story and as good as his first books
- By Anonymous on 31-08-2025
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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2024
- Language: English
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall159
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Performance140
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Story139
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.
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Beautifully complex and irresistible
- By Mark on 18-01-2025
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2014
- Language: English
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall475
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Performance436
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Story435
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....
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good if somewhat longer than necessary
- By Kindle Customer on 09-04-2018
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2010
- Language: English
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance160
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Story162
The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
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Another M. Banks classic
- By Anonymous on 15-01-2026
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 9
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-10-2010
- Language: English
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story19
The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson It is...
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The end of the universe
- By Wesley on 05-01-2025
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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2006
- Language: English
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall271
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Performance245
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Story245
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.
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Another cracker
- By Laurence on 25-08-2022
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2012
- Language: English
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance92
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Story94
The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
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Rubbish
- By Alex S. on 20-05-2025
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2014
- Language: English
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Complicity
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit.
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Complicity
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture Series, Book 10
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance127
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Story128
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations: They are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.
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sublime perfection
- By Barry on 04-06-2023
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture Series, Book 10
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 10
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2012
- Language: English
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The Crow Road
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance27
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Story27
It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God, and illegal substances.…
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So good it’s worth rereading
- By Mike Toohey on 19-07-2022
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The Crow Road
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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Transition
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?
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Ian Banks at his best
- By Christopher Edwards on 22-01-2024
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Transition
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2009
- Language: English
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Overall417
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Performance372
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Story371
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Love this book!
- By Chris O'Neill on 22-01-2016
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2010
- Language: English
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Feersum Endjinn
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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Story30
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time.... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones.... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt.... And everything is about to change.... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand.
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A book ahead of its time
- By Friedrich Clausen on 09-09-2024
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Feersum Endjinn
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2013
- Language: English
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The Wasp Factory
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Overall68
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Performance64
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Story63
The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.
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Not for the faint of heart
- By Amazon Customer on 22-01-2019
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The Wasp Factory
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2008
- Language: English
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Matter
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one, maybe two, people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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Way too abridged
- By Conrad on 28-04-2021
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Matter
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2008
- Language: English
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Stonemouth
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Overall13
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Performance11
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Story12
Stewart 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 its five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than sea fog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides.
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Banks at his best
- By Anonymous on 19-10-2023
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Stonemouth
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2012
- Language: English
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