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Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013. Thirty years working as an actor, musician, designer and director in Theatre and Radio; Peter has worked for: A&BC Theatre Co. The Royal Shakespeare Co. and The BBC Radio Drama Co. An award winning narrator of audio-books he has recorded over 100 titles, everything from: Iain M. Banks, Neil Gaiman, and Andrzej Sapkowski to Claire North, Jonas Jonasson Jeremy Vine and Paul O'Grady. He has worked with many of the major publishing houses including, Little Brown, Orion/Gollancz, Hachette, Harper, Hodder, Pan MacMillan, ISIS, RNIB, Podium and Penguin. Visit www.peterkenny.com @PeterKennyVoiceWildly imaginative... A corker of a thriller, a classic good versus bad tale, and one which the author uses to tackle some seriously big moral and philosophical issues - but always in his typically light-handed and darkly humorous fashion... <b>A book that makes you think, one that makes you look at the world around you in a different light</b>, and it's also <b>a properly thrilling read</b>
Independent on Sunday
<i>Transition</i> is <b>Banks at his exuberant, flamboyant, head-spinning best</b>
Financial Times
Iain Banks is gifted with wonderful fluency and dizzying imaginative flair
Daily Mail
<b>A labyrinthine tale of great conception and craft</b>... A memorable array of characters... <i>Transition</i> is awash with energy and dark wit
Sunday Business Post
<b>Brilliantly compulsive</b>
Big Issue
Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it's<b> a novel to get lost in</b>... gripping
The Times
A highly readable and engrossing sci-fi thriller
Sunday Herald
<b>An engrossing, futuristic fable</b> with plenty to say about the here and now
Metro
One of Iain Banks's most imaginative and compelling novels yet
Scotsman
** 'Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it's a novel to get lost in . . . gripping
THE TIMES
** 'Stunning . . . tackles the issues of the responsibility of power, the moral implications of intervention and even the philosophical conundrum of what constitutes life itself. If only more contemporary fiction were like it . . . A book that makes you l
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
** 'One of Iain Banks's most imaginative and compelling novels yet
SCOTSMAN