The Wasp Factory

'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 details

• Authors: Iain Banks
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.06.2013
• EAN: 9780349139180
• ISBN: 978-0-349-13918-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Series: ABACUS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Gothic, Horror & ghost stories, Psychological thriller, Horror and supernatural fiction