Even when it is expected, a death is a shock, and despite the characteristic levity and openness with which Iain Banks prepared the world for his departure with
We live in an age of miracles, but not of the religious variety. The wonders of the modern age are technological, an ever refined harnessing of material and
Is it only a fellow writer who, when reading a great novel, speculates how much was conceived in a flood of inspiration at the moment of conception, and
