Novelist Iain Banks (above), who writes sci-fi as Iain M Banks, has announced he has only months left to live.

Fellow Scottish author, Ian Rankin, said the news of [Iain] Banks’ terminal cancer was “just awful”.

He Tweeted: “Typical of Iain to propose marriage to his partner Adele with the words ‘Will you do me the honour of becoming my widow?”

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Iain Banks diagnosed with gall bladder cancer (Guardian)

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