Espedair Street, Iain Banks
Espedair Street, Iain Banks
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Espedair Street

Author: Iain Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/23/2014

Synopsis

Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be). Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them?

And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.

About Iain Banks

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

About Peter Kenny

Thirty years working as an actor, musician, designer and director in Theatre and Radio; Peter has worked for: A&BC Theatre Co. The Royal Shakespeare Co. and The BBC Radio Drama Co. An award winning narrator of audio-books he has recorded over 100 titles, everything from: Iain M. Banks, Neil Gaiman, and Andrzej Sapkowski to Claire North, Jonas Jonasson Jeremy Vine and Paul O'Grady. He has worked with many of the major publishing houses including, Little Brown, Orion/Gollancz, Hachette, Harper, Hodder, Pan MacMillan, ISIS, RNIB, Podium and Penguin. Visit www.peterkenny.com @PeterKennyVoice

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad on November 30, 2009

I’ve always been impressed by Iain (M.) Banks range. Whether he’s writing about an hermaphroditic serial killer and his/her mechanical wasp oracle, a man in a coma living a second life on a vast hyperreal bridge of the mind, a bored gamer compelled by artificial intelligences to play the ultimate ga......more

Goodreads review by Marcus on June 15, 2019

I bought this having wandered into a book shop aged 16, in the Summer of 1987. I was taken by its strange black and white lumpy cover. We were an immediate match. It was my Catcher in the Rye and Iain Banks was my hero. I have subsequently re-read it and it takes me back to being 16 and all those cl......more

Goodreads review by Laura on October 08, 2015

First of all, this is NOT a book by "Iain M. Banks" - it's by Iain Banks (in other words, it's fiction, not science-fiction). Second, why he's so difficult to find in the US I'll never know. Every book I've read is just good, solid fiction writing, equal to Julian Barnes, Robertson Davies and many o......more

Goodreads review by Manny on February 06, 2013

They're supposedly just friends. But now they're lying naked on the beach together, looking up at the stars with no one else in sight, and he's trying to find a tactful way to explain how he feels about her. (This kind of thing seems to happen more frequently to rock stars than it does to me). Lucki......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 16, 2023

I'm still yet to read a convincing novel about music stardom. Utopia Avenue byDavid Mitchell, The Thrill of it All by Joseph O'Connor, Daisy Jones & The SixProbably the best book on the subject I've read is Brett Anderson of Suede's autobiography, Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn. This novel is rife......more

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Charming, sad, comic... the funniest, truest rock biopic yet Observer

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