Frank Cauldhame is not your average sixteen-year-old. Living on a remote Scottish island, he spends his days creating rituals, tinkering with his bizarre inventions, and recounting the violent history that already defines his life. Three murders by his own hand stand tall in his memory. He insists it was just a stage.
But beneath Frank’s unsettling calm lies a deeper madness. Family secrets, cruel games, and the eerie presence of the Wasp Factory—a ritualistic device of his own making—point toward truths far stranger and more horrifying than even Frank imagines.
Iain M. Banks’s infamous debut novel is disturbing, darkly comic, and unforgettable. Is Frank a monster, a victim, or something more terrifying? The answer waits within the wires of the Wasp Factory.
