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The steep approach to Garbadale

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of this Iain Banks' novel.

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  • "Krutye podstupy k Garbadeĭlu"
  • "Крутые подступы к Гарбадейлу"

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  • "Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel."
  • "Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of this Iain Banks' novel."@en
  • "After years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family's highland estate, Garbadale. A powerful American corporation is trying to buy the rights to the family's successful boardgame, Empire! Alban must confront his mother's suicide and his teenage love affair with his cousin Sophie."
  • ""The Wopuld family have built their fortune on a board game called Empire. It has transferred remarkably well to the computer generation and now the American Spraint company wants to buy them out. Alban, head of the family, thinks the Yanks should be treated with suspicion - but he also has other things on this mind. Dark secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million-pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel."--Publisher."
  • "Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! -- now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming family gathering -- part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting -- convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings an inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet ready to see Sophie, his beautiful, enchanting cousin and teenage love, at the EGM? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective for ever."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "General fiction"@en

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  • "The steep approach to Garbadale"@en
  • "The steep approached to garbadale"
  • "The Steep Approach to Garbadale"
  • "Juegos de familia"
  • ""Imperii︠a︡!", ili Krutye podstupy k Garbadeĭlu"
  • ""Империя!", или Крутые подступы к Гарбадейлу"
  • "The steep approach to Garbadale"

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