Once famous above all for his classic novel series about the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 1960s, "Alms for Oblivion", Simon Raven is now also recognized as a travel writer, a reporter at large of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a commentator on the sexual mores of gay ...
It's a year not too long from this one and a mysterious plague has destroyed most of the Earth's trees. As the print industry shudders into silence, a librarian named Jonathan Butter has been granted the opportunity of a lifetime: he is to write the last book in the world. When a demon named Koob offers ...