{"product_id":"whit","title":"Whit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ch3\u003e''Fierce contemporaneity, an acrobat imagination, social comment, sardonic wit... the peculiar sub-culture of cult religion is a natural for Banks'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little knowledge can be a dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult, Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian''s four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Iain Banks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The most imaginative novelist of his generation'' \u003c\/b\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers'' \u003c\/b\u003eKen MacLeod, Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent''\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Gaiman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An exceptional wordsmith'' \u003c\/b\u003eScotsman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319210582398,"sku":"NW9780349139173","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349139173.jpg?v=1778696064","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/whit","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}