A beautiful hardback gift-edition with a new introduction by Ian Rankin. Raw Spirit is a fascinating journey through Scotland's famous distilleries with legendary author Iain Banks
Iain Banks was born in Scotland in 1954. He came to widespread public notice in 1984 with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory. He went on to gain enormous and popular critical acclaim with further works of fiction and science fiction. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers. Iain Banks died in 2013 at the age of fifty-nine.
It does what every good book should manage to do, and what a
hundred other books on whisky (and a thousand other books on
Scotland) have signally failed to do: makes you want to go for a
drink with the author.
*Observer*
Studded with bracing shots of pure insight and eloquence. And he's
sound on the scotch as well.
*Independent*
A very readable and hugely informative book, and Bank’s gentle
humour permeates the pages.
*Time Out*
It’s an engaging piece of work, part love letter, part memoir.
*Esquire*
A very beguiling fusion of memoir, history and current affairs.
*Glasgow Herald*
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