The Wasp Factory

The Wasp FactoryIain Banks' momentous first novel, published in 1984. 'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.' Enter if you can bear it the extraordinary

underground music scene

Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón

Anecdotes from lovers of the region include Mica Ertegun

A2: Portrait

it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who are trying to stay alive after escaping from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during World War II

A pioneering study of how Picasso

They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved

remixer and long-term collaborator of Brian Eno and Coldplay

a beautiful girlfriend

But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell

A1: Pumpkin

No one suspects that the Second Foundation could still exist