Which author, whose books included 'A Song of Stone', 'Espedair Street' and 'Whit', died in 2013?
Espedair Street horror like "The Wasp Factory", a literary mystery ("Walking on Glass"), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works. Espedair Street is also a real street in Charleston, Paisley, where some of the significant events in the book take place. "Espedair Street", Iain Banks, London: Macmillan, 1987, (paperback ) A four-part BBC radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. Espedair Street Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987. The book tells the (fictional) story of the rise to fame of Dan
Espedair Street the ex-Marillion singer and lyricist ("When I created Weird [...] I think Fish was at the back of my mind as a wee subliminal influence"). Sex, drugs and rock and roll are present on almost every page, sometimes all three at once. There is a tone of rock journalism in the parts of the book about Frozen Gold. Coincidentally, onetime aspiring rock musician Sandy Robertson, who later became a well known rock journalist at Sounds magazine, lived in Espedair Street in the early 70s before the book was written. As Banks' first novel to eschew 'special effects', not being Gothic