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Book Description
Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in LondonAfter a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserteContinue
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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Dead Air
There's no question that Iain Banks is a talented writer. He's also very prolific, and since his first novel, the 1984 punky gothic masterpiece The Wasp Factory, he has released 18 novels in an astonishing variety of genres, including Kafkaesque alle ... (read full critics)
infinityplus published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010
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"a couple of ice cubes, first, tehn the apple that really started it all...and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac...just as mobiles start to ring..TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center..."
lizeliz said on Dec 12, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- eBook 448 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0748109897
- ISBN-13: 9780748109890
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Pub date: Sep 04, 2008
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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David2268 
Driving on a dark night
Ken Nott is the most annoying man in England. It's his job (he's a shock jock, a prime-time talk-radio DJ), and also his hobby (he's unfaithful to his girlfriend, has bedded his best mate's wife, and, worst of all, likes to take his controversial opi ... (read full critics)