Culture Series 2 : 5 Books Collection Set By Iain M Banks (Inversions, Look To Windward, Matter, Surface Detail, The Hydrogen Sonata)

Inversions:
Inversions (Culture) In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.

Look To Windward:
Look To Windward (Culture) The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported.Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.

Matter:
Matter (Culture) In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.

Surface Detail:
Surface Detail (Culture) Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.

The Hydrogen Sonata:
The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture) An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment.