The Wasp Factory

Author(s): Iain Banks

Crime & Thrillers

'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' Telegraph


'One of the top 100 novels of the century' Independent

'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' New York Times

'Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down' Financial Times


'Read it if you dare' Daily Express


The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.


'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.'


Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.


Product Information

Iain Banks' momentous first novel, published in 1984 is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year.

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.

General Fields

  • : 9780349139180
  • : Little Brown
  • : Abacus
  • : 0.208
  • : July 2013
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : July 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Iain Banks
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 256
  • : FA