{"product_id":"surface-detail-1","title":"Iain M Banks: Surface Detail [2011] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ninth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.  Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for the Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsive reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eThe State of the Art\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks\u003cb\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003eThe Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banks, Iain M","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46493719363923,"sku":"9781841498959","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51374150549843,"sku":"XG81841498959","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52111360426323,"sku":"XV81841498959","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/banks-iain-m-iain-m-banks-surface-detail-2011-paperback-9781841498959-1154944982.jpg?v=1760355132","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/surface-detail-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}