This is how it all begins: Raymond see Don Quixote lying in a skip…

Arts Librarian Raymond mounts a defence of the printed word as a digital purge sweeps through his university library. Thousands of volumes are culled before the librarian himself is shown the door. Redundant, alone with his books, Raymond plots his renaissance…

Renaissance is a novel of books, of architecture, of rediscovery that explores the relationship between past and present, old and new, between personal and cultural longing.

Renaissance will be launched by Raimond De Weedrt on the 11th of December at the Serpentine Community Gallery, 5.30 - 7.30.

If you can’t go?

The novel is not yet in bookshops but can be bought direct. Retail price: $28; postage in Australia: $10.00. Email for details.