Authors:Banks, Iain M. Banks,
Publisher: Abacus Software
Keywords: iain, banks, unsaved, amongst, isis, whit
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 1996-09
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0349107688
ISBN-13: 9780349107684

A 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 and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to ha

Author: Richard Grant
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: riders, ghost
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-12-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0349112681
ISBN-13: 9780349112688

’Who among us has not felt his heart beat a little faster at the sight of a plane soaring into a wide blue sky, or admired the fellow who tears up the gas bills? ...In this engaging and finely written book, Richard Grant, a restless Englishman and something of an itinerant himself seeks out the wanderers, the rootless, the "legion of drifters, grifters, hoboes and tramps". Grant traces their historical antecedents (the ghosts of the title are the nomadic horsemen of the American West) and ponders what drives a man to spend his life in motion ...He is a first-class writer ...I enjoyed thi

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: stealing, art, sacred
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-09-04
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0349114900
ISBN-13: 9780349114903

Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than a

Author: Alfred Watkins
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: ley, lines, book, classic, straight, track, old
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-04-02
List price: $26.85
ISBN-10: 0349137072
ISBN-13: 9780349137070

First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old when the Romans came to Britain. First in the Herefordshire countryside, and later throughout Britain, Alfred Watkins noticed that beacon hills, mounds, earthworks, moats and old churches built on pagan sites seemed to fall in straight lines. His investigation convinced him that Britain was covered with a vast network of straight tracks, aligned with either the sun or the path of a star. Although traces o

Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: air, dead
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2003-07-03
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0349116644
ISBN-13: 9780349116648

Iain 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, beanbags, other unwanted furniture...Then they get carried away and start dropping things that are still working, while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But mobile

Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: glass, walking
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0349101787
ISBN-13: 9780349101781

’Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life.’ Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. Th

Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: truce, man
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $18.60
ISBN-10: 0349100136
ISBN-13: 9780349100135

’With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi’s writing isn’t just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to hi