The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Dark family secrets, a long-lostlove affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lieat the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel.The Would family built their fortune on a board gamecalled Empire! - now a wildly successful computer game.So successful the American Spraint Corp wants to buy theWopulds out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evadingthe family tentacles for the last few years, thinksSpraint should be treated with suspicion - but he alsohas other things on his mind. What drove his mother totake her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, hisbewitching cousin and teenage love, whors"ll bepresent at the forthcoming family gathering - partbirthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - atGarbadale, their highland castle?