Edition details
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Six double-page colour illustrations, black & white title page illustration and five black and white tailpiece illustrations by Darren Hopes. Signed by the artist. Dark blue endpapers printed with an image in blue tones. Black ribbon marker. Gun-metal foiled book edges. Printed in black and gold ink. Quarter-bound in title blocked yellow leather with dark blue buckram sides blocked and overprinted with a design by the artist. Clamshell box covered in dark blue cloth blocked with gold decorations, gold ends, front with an inset paper label printed with an illustration by the artist, lined in blocked metallic blue and metallic mustard paper. 240pp. 28.7x19.9cm. 500 copies. (£350).
About the book
Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory is narrated by Frank Cauldhame, a disturbed teenager living in isolation with his father on a remote Scottish island. Frank has created a private world of rituals, weapons and the mysterious Wasp Factory, through which he attempts to impose order on his surroundings. As news arrives that his institutionalised brother Eric has escaped, the novel builds an atmosphere of menace while exploring identity, family secrets, violence and unreliable narration.
