The Crow Road by Iain Banks

The Crow Road by Iain Banks"It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmont 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

André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature

Apart from him

the dread and the comedy of all things ghostly

When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life

masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople

'I could see that she was still terribly afraid

habits and habitat

he finds himself plagued by interruptions

and the post-conflict reconstruction period (2006-2016)

Find out why Europe’s next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks as trouble brews in the Sahel

It's the summer before the sisterhood departs for college

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