Bug

'A moon, a graveyard, a beautiful woman - and a deranged entomologist who watches from his hiding place while a love-sick professor of history is mauled by a drugged badger.' So Professor Bell sums up the first evening of the final term of 1999. Set in Newburgh, a fictional university in the north of England, this is a story of student pranks, college fights, thwarted love affairs - and sexual harassment and shame (#MeToo1999). A student support officer discovers that her college principal is a fraud - and dangerous. She has her sights set on the principal of a rival college, but he is infatuated with one of his undergraduates. As the end of the Millennium approaches, the academic anthill threatens to crumble into chaos. 'Full of surprises... hilarious... poignant. Gillian Boughton, University of Durham 'Very good... made me want to turn the pages.' Alan Judd, novelist and columnist