Iain Banks - "Ashamed to be British"

According to his letter in Saturday's Guardian, Scottish novelist Iain Banks, author of Dead Air, The Wasp Factory, Complicity, The Crow Road and plenty more, has apparently destroyed his passport and sent the remains to Tony Blair as a protest at Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq....

Update: Bank's latest novel, Dead Air doesn't seem to be available in the USA. Try Amazon.co.uk.

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    Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. ...

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