Andrew Crumey Books In Order

Novels

Pfitz (1994)
Music in a Foreign Language (1994)
D’Alembert’s Principle (1996)
Mr Mee (2000)
Mobius Dick (2004)
Sputnik Caledonia (2008)
The Secret Knowledge (2013)
The Great Chain of Unbeing (2018)

Collections

Magnetic North (2005)

Novels Book Covers

Collections Book Covers

Magnetic North
(2005)

Andrew Crumey Books Overview

Pfitz

An eighteenth century prince devotes his entire wealth and the energy of his subjects to the creation of Rreinnstadt, a fantastic city that exists only on paper and in the minds of its creators. Among Rreinnstadt’s fictional inhabitants is Pfitz, a count’s loyal servant who mysteriously disappears one night from a tavern. Andrew Crumey’s exploration of the rich territory between reality and fantasy reveals a genuine affection for character and the terrain of the human heart.

Music in a Foreign Language

Set in an imaginary Britain, a novel explores the friendship between two men, a physicist and a historian, who share a past history that leads to a betrayal neither could have imagined possible. A first novel.

Mr Mee

In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileless Mr. Mee, two eighteenth century French philosophers, and a middle aged university professor, Andrew Crumey’s book concerns the creation and mysterious disappearance of Rosier’s Encyclopaedia, an explosive text written more than two hundred years ago that purportedly disproves the existence of the universe. At times funny, often thought provoking, and completely engaging, Mr. Mee is Crumey’s most rewarding novel to date. AUTHORBIO: Andrew is the author of three previous novels, Music, In a Foreign Language, Pfitz, a New York Times Notable Book, and D’Alembert’s Principle. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mobius Dick

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 very different place: amnesia, telepathy, false memory, and inexplicable coincidences all seem to be occurring more frequently with humorous, brain teasing results. Could quantum experiments have caused the collapse of our universes space time continuum? Could the multi layered text we are reading come from another world altogether?