The Steep Approach To Garbadale

by Iain Banks

Genres: Literary Fiction

Synopsis

The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering—part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting—in their highland castle?

Release date: September 4, 2008

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Print pages: 400

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