The steep approach to Garbadale:
"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 oth...
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Little, Brown
2007
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| Edition: | 1. publ. in Great Britain, reprinted (ten times) |
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| Summary: | "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. |
| Physical Description: | 390 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780316731058 9780316731065 |
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| adam_text | After
years of exile,
Alban Wopuld
has been summoned
back to his family s highland estate, Garbadale. The
Wopuld clan are closing ranks. They have built their
fortune on the boardgame Empire!
-
which has become a
hugely successful computer game
—
and now the Americans
want to buy them out.
As the family gathers for the Extraordinary General
Meeting, old grudges, forbidden passions and dark secrets
emerge. What drove Alban s mother to take her own life?
And is he yet over Sophie, his bewitching cousin and
teenage love?
|
| adam_txt |
After
years of exile,
Alban Wopuld
has been summoned
back to his family's highland estate, Garbadale. The
Wopuld clan are closing ranks. They have built their
fortune on the boardgame Empire!
-
which has become a
hugely successful computer game
—
and now the Americans
want to buy them out.
As the family gathers for the Extraordinary General
Meeting, old grudges, forbidden passions and dark secrets
emerge. What drove Alban's mother to take her own life?
And is he yet over Sophie, his bewitching cousin and
teenage love? |
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