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COMPETITION RESULT
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London August 1, 1999 700+ words Answers to last week's Iain Banks competition: 1) The baryton is the instrument...alternatives for the band Frozen Gold; 3) The M in Iain M Banks stands for Menzies. The following 10 readers each win a prize of a... |
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NO BREAKING THE LAURA
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland DAVID McINTOSH November 11, 1999 700+ words ...publicity and quickly drew comparisons with Ian McEwan and Iain Banks for its lurid and compelling collection of twisted characters...she'd send it in and I'd get back a GBP 1.50 John Menzies voucher. "It was towards the end of primary school and... |
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TIME OUT.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) August 29, 2008 700+ words ...I? An author, I was born in Dunfermline in 1954 with the middle name Menzies. I use the initial M in my name when writing sci-fi novels. My novels...New Zealand; 1946. REMEMBER WHEN: 1994. WORDWISE: B. WHO AM I: Iain Banks. |
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Bank on a Best seller; Big Interview.(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) September 1, 2001 700+ words ...while his alterego Iain M Banks is constantly in orbit...he ran out of the room. Iain M Banks the sci-fi supremo with...stands for his middle name Menzies and seemed a convenient...Like many an only child, Iain spent his youth feeding... |
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Books
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Warren Howard August 9, 2008 700+ words ...attending include Louis de Bernieres, Hanif Kureishi, Iain Banks, Margaret Atwood, Chuck Palahniuk, Salman Rushdie and...There's also political and topical discussion from Menzies Campbell and Tony Benn, a focus on China in Beijing... |
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Write on uncle
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland STEPHANIE TODD and SHEILA PATEL December 29, 2000 700+ words ...them across the UK - has made Bob Banks put pen to paper with a purpose. For Bob, the uncle of the writer Iain Banks, has dreamed up a series of stories...Writing under his full name of Robert Menzies Banks, Bob hopes to build on past literary... |
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Mersey make over to set the standard; Artery project will spend millions...
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) February 17, 2004 700+ words ...Byline: Louise Davies THE banks of the River Mersey are...funded scheme the river banks at Garston and Speke are...work in the district. Iain Taylor, development manager...the Mersey's derelict banks in Stockport. The official...the Netherlands. Walter Menzies, chief executive of the... |
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By the time they stop being mad, politicians are the right age for the House of...
Magazine article from: The Spectator RIFKIND, HUGO October 20, 2007 700+ words ...at 42, seems to be about optimum. Sir Menzies Campbell, all the way up at a lofty 66...middle-aged, and as normal, say, as Iain Duncan Smith, he will be an obsolete old...was. This bit is a column about robbing banks. Did you know that hardly anybody in Britain... |
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Theatre Reviews: Pitfalls of blowing your own trumpet
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman Joyce McMillan April 25, 2008 700+ words ...Cameron is in Downing Street, and Menzies Campbell has just been kidnapped...Theatre's new touring version of Iain Banks's seminal 1980s novel The Wasp...necessary quality of ironic dourness in Banks's story that Robson misses; and... |
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Adamson helps Scots earn draw
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) March 26, 2007 700+ words ...Dean Kane had 17 for Bears, while Colin Menzies added 14 for the Police. Wanderers win...Kinloss against Quasar, with goals from Iain Selkirk (2), Jason Black and Stuart...DR (7.45). ABERDEENSHIRE LEAGUE - Banks o' Dee v Huntly (8.0), Cove Rangers... |
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Banks, Iain (Menzies)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Banks, Iain (Menzies) (1954– ), Scottish novelist and science fiction writer, born in Dunfermline...more than fulfilled his early promise. He has also written science fiction novels under the name Iain M. Banks. |
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