Mr Mee

Published Jan 2010

Elderly Scottish bookworm Mr Mee searches the Internet for a legendary encyclopaedia outlining an 18th century quantum theory. Instead he enters a strange new world of cyber-hoaxers and online pornography. Meanwhile a university lecturer describes research on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and an infatuation with one of his own students. And in the third strand of this unique comedy of ideas, set in the spring of 1761, Rousseau’s neighbours hold the key to the writer’s madness, the lost encyclopaedia, and Mr Mee himself. Combining history and fantasy, philosophy and farce, Crumey’s novel is an intellectual page-turner that keeps the reader laughing and guessing to the end. Winner of the SAC Book Award.