'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.