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It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Pan
In 1942, parachutists Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubi are dropped into Nazi-occupied Prague with orders to kill Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared figures in the Third Reich. Heydrich oversees the Nazi secret services and helps design the machinery of te
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2026* 'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman 'A dazzling romp' Guardian Florence,1557. As
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. Its February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Bar
One of The Washington Post 's 50 Best Novels of the Year Longlisted for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award "As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read." --Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker "[A] thoroug
From the prizewinning author of HHhH , "the most insolent novel of the year" ( L'Express ) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies--struck by a laundry van--a
Den franske essayist og semiolog Roland Barthes bliver i 1980 kørt ned af en varebil i Paris og udånder kort tid efter på hospitalet. Men var det bare en ulykke? Blev han i virkeligheden slået ihjel og i så fald af hvem? Barthes bar på en mappe, hvor der
Florence, New Years Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria
"[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp." --Steven Poole, The Guardian "Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this." --George Cochrane, The Telegraph (5/5 stars) A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A pulse-qu