Alexandria

¿Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.¿ Telegraph

¿Beckett doing Beowulf.¿ London Review of Books

One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island ¿ a group no larger than an extended family ¿ are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth''s only human survivors.

But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria.

A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth¿s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.

Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth