"1993. The first "M" novel that's not part of the Culture series. An antiquities thief searchs fo the last of the Lazy Guns in order to escape assassination."
"1998, and what may or may not be part of The Culture series. Iain said of this book, "Inversions was an attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't."
"2004. Again not part of The Culture. Intstellar conflict between species living at normal speed, and those who live more slowly, but far longer. Possibly the first of a trilogy."
"2008. In comment on this Culture novel, I'll echo a critic who said "The final body count is not immediately clear," and consider that expressive enough."