Andrew Crumey has a PhD in theoretical physics and is former literary editor of Scotland on Sunday. He won the £60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award – the UK’s largest literary prize – in 2006. His novels combine history, science, philosophy, and humour, and have been translated into fifteen languages. Music, in a Foreign Language won the Saltire First Book Award; Sputnik Caledonia was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The Great Chain of Unbeing was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Award. He has also been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Books in order of publication:
Music, in a Foreign Language (1994)
Pfitz (1995)
D’Alembert’s Principle (1996)
Mr Mee (2000)
Mobius Dick (2004)
Sputnik Caledonia (2008)
The Secret Knowledge (2013)
The Great Chain of Unbeing (2018)
Beethoven’s Assassins (2023)
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