The Wasp Factory

<p><b><h3>40th anniversary edition of Iain Banks'' classic debut novel THE WASP FACTORY, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman</h3></b><br><br><b>''A gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><i>''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.''</i><br><br>Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.<br><br><br>Praise for Iain Banks:<br><br><b>''The most imaginative novelist of his generation'' </b><i>The Times</i><br><br><b>''His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers''</b> Ken MacLeod, <i>Guardian<br></i><br