Iain Banks talks writing, world events and Mastermind

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By: Derek Neale (The Open University), Iain Banks (Guest)

Posted under Creative Writing, Culture, English Language, English Language, Literature, Literature and Creative Writing, History & The Arts

Author Iain Banks talks to the OU's Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more.

27 Jan

2011

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Derek Neale (The Open University)

Derek Neale is a fiction writer with an interest in dramatic writing and life writing. He helped to design and write the course materials for a whole new generation of Open University writing courses – Start Writing and Creative Writing. He chairs the course Advanced Creative Writing.

Iain Banks (Guest)

Iain Banks is the author of over twenty novels, both with and without his middle initial M. Amongst his works are Dead Air, The Steep Approach to Garbadale and The Crow Road.

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