Alexandria

England’s greatest living writer … Kingsnorth has finally traveled beyond literature into myth, cementing his title as a profoundly religious writer of uniquely English stamp.
Aris Roussinos, Washington Examiner

Kingsnorth writes from the very core of the agony and inner turmoil of being human in a living world dying at human hands. As humanity struggles to find a good enough reason not to annihilate ourselves and all life, Alexandria is a fervently proffered modern myth, offering no simple answers but plenty of meaning.
Ellie Robins, Lithub

The writing is a linguistic delight … Kingsnorth’s novel is both of time and out of time, and it posits some of the most urgent questions of this millennium: where are we going, and what will become of us.
Financial Times

[This trilogy is] altogether, a remarkable project, and in this final book Kingsnorth creates images that have a timeless power.
Erica Wagner, New Statesman

There’s wisdom here, adventure, mystery and poetry but, in the end, a simple moral: sink or swim.
Daily Mail

Imaginative, moody, brilliantly written - vintage Kingsnorth, that is, and a boon for readers of speculative fiction.
Kirkus Reviews (US)

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‘When Swans return, Alexandria will fall.’

One thousand years from now, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world’s last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria.

Set in a time on the far side of an apocalypse, and perhaps on the verge of another, Alexandria is the final novel in my Buckmaster trilogy, which maps two thousand years of human history.

Graywolf Press (US), 2020. Faber & Faber (UK), 2021

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