Born February 16, 1954, in Fife, Scotland; son of Thomas Menzies (an admiralty officer) and Euphemia (an ice skating instructor) Banks; married wife, Annie, 1992 (divorced). Education: University of Stirling, B.A., 1975. Politics: Socialist. Religion: Atheist. Avocational Interests: "Hillwalking, eating and drinking, and talking to friends." Memberships: Amnesty International, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Addresses: Home: Edinburgh, Scotland.

FICTION

• The Wasp Factory, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1984.
• Walking on Glass, Macmillan (London, England), 1985, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1986.
• The Bridge, Macmillan (London, England), 1986.
• Espedair Street, Macmillan (London, England), 1987.
• Canal Dreams, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1991.
• Complicity, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1995.
• Whit, or Isis amongst the Unsaved, Little, Brown (London, England), 1995.
• The Crow Road, Little, Brown (London, England), 1996.
• A Song of Stone, Villard (New York, NY), 1998.
• Inversions, Orbit (London, England), 1998, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 2000.
• The Business (novel), Little, Brown (London, England), 1999.
• Dead Air, Little Brown (London, England), 2002.
• The Steep Approach to Garbadale, MacAdam/Cage (San Francisco, CA), 2007.

• Consider Phlebas, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1987.
• The Player of Games, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1989.
• The State of the Art (stories), M.V. Ziesing (Willimantic, CT), 1989.
• Use of Weapons, Bantam (New York, NY), 1992.
• Against a Dark Background, Spectra, 1993.
• Feersum Endjinn, Bantam (New York, NY), 1995.
• Excession, Orbit (London, England), 1996, Bantam (New York, NY), 1997.
• Look to Windward, Orbit (London, England), 2000, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 2001.
• The Algebraist, Orbit (London, England), 2004.

• Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram (nonfiction), Century (London, England), 2003.