The Wasp Factory

<p><b>'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' <i>Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'One of the top 100 novels of the century' <i>Independent</i> <br><br>'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' <i>New York Times</i><br><br>'Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b><i>'</i>Read it if you dare' </b><b><i>Daily Express</i> </b><br><br><i>The Wasp Factory</i> is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. <br><br><i>'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.' </i><br><br>Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.</p>