For more than forty years his novels have defined sections of book stores; regardless of how small or large those stores may be, there will always be a
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
“Henry Guilfoyle was slowly drinking himself to death.”
More the words from a mid-afternoon play, or perhaps a late era Beatles song, the tale of a fallen salesman who