Scottish author Iain Banks died on Sunday, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer.
Banks, 59, revealed in April he had gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year.
He was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity.
He was a prolific authors, writing both mainstream novels and science fiction - the latter under the name Iain M. Banks.
He rose to prominence in 1984 with The Wasp Factory, the dark tale of a Scottish teenager who murders three children in his family before he is 10.
Banks died less than a fortnight before the publication of his final book, The Quarry, which is to be published on 20 June.
The BBC reports it describes the final weeks of the life of a man in his 40s who has terminal cancer.
Banks said he was some 87,000 words into writing the book when he was diagnosed with his own illness.
"I had no inkling. So it wasn't as though this is a response to the disease or anything, the book had been kind of ready to go," he said.
"And then 10,000 words from the end, as it turned out, I suddenly discovered that I had cancer."
Little, Brown said the author was presented with finished copies of his last novel three weeks ago.
