Scotland Magazine author Paul Schoonenberg

Searching for Scotland's true spirit

Iain Banks' new book is a personal journey into Scotland's distillery hearland. Paul Schoonenberg reports

Iain Banks, the relentlessly inventive novelist, famous for his speed writing (he penned his last novel Dead Air in just six weeks), is finally taking a more leisurely approach to his work with his first piece of non fiction, Raw Spirit: In search of the perfect dram, a layman’s guide to whisky and ...

Scotland Profile from Issue 12 published on 19/1/2004