Fact and Fiction

We should take Banks's accurate correlations to landscape with a pinch of salt:

"for the purposes of the geographical and historical background in my novel "The Crow Road", it was torn in half; I'd decided I wanted to locate the fictional town of Gallanach near Crinan on the mainland. I needed the place to have a deep water port with easy acess to the Atlantic and I didn't want to edit out the Corryvrecken so I blithely cut Jura in two. You get to do this sort of thing when you are a writer."

Raw Spirit - Chapter 4 - To Jura