Andrew Crumey

• Jul-2023
• / General Fiction
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Beethoven’s Assassins is impeccably ambitious, reliably 'Entertaining and a little over the top. It’s what happens when everything is allowed.' John Self in The Financial Times 'Crumey gives each of his chapters its own period and central chara...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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Andrew Crumey's novels are renowned for their unique blend of science, history, philosophy and humour. Now he brings the same insight and originality to this story cycle whose title offers an ironic twist on the ancient doctrine of connectedness, the...

• Apr-2015
• / Historical
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'The playful preoccupation with alternative realities that dominated Scots author Crumeyââ,¬â"¢s previous fiction (including Pfitz and Dââ,¬â"¢Alembertââ,¬â"¢s Principle) also informs this richly amusing novel about the search for an 18th-century ...

• Mar-2015
• / Science Fiction
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A lost musical masterpiece is at the heart of this gripping intellectual mystery by award-winning writer Andrew Crumey.In 1913 composer Pierre Klauer envisages marriage to his sweetheart and fame for his new work, The Secret Knowledge. Then tragedy s...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Sputnik Caledonia was awarded the prestigious Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award and was shortlisted for The James Tait Black Prize and The Scottish Book of the Year Award. Robbie Coyle is an imaginative kid. He wants so badly to become Scotland...

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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In Mobius Dick, physicist John Ringer, receives a mysterious text message that triggers an investigation into the development of new mobile phone technology in a research facility outside a remote Scottish village. Already the world is becoming a ver...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction
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Elderly Scottish bookworm Mr Mee searches the Internet for the legendary Rosier's Encyclopaedia which supposedly outlines an 18th-century quantum theory. Instead he enters a strange new world of cyber-hoaxers and online pornography. Meanwhile univers...

• Oct-1998
• / General Fiction
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'A wonderfully diverting and stimulating entertainment. Cunningly structured and as satisfying as an intricate piece of clockwork, it plays with narrative, revels in ideas and succeeds in being both fey and sharp, detached and compassionate. At a tim...

• Sep-1997
• / Fantasy
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"Pfitz is a surprisingly warm and likeable book, a combination of intellectual high-wire act and good traditional storytelling with a population of lovers and madmen we do care about, despite their advertised fictionality. Certainly Crumey’s narrat...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction
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The strikingly inventive structure of this novel allows the author to explore the similarities between fictions and history. At any point, there are infinite possibilities for the way the story, a life, or the history of the world might progress. The...