Mr Mee

'The playful preoccupation with alternative realities that dominated Scots author Crumey's previous fiction (including Pfitz and D'Alembert's Principle) also informs this richly amusing novel about the search for an 18th-century encyclopedia that supposedly disproves the existence of the universe. Crumey's wonderfully obsessive characters include the crotchety title figure (an elderly book collector), the lissome "life-scientist" who acquaints him with the world outside books, a perceptive ...