Laurent Binet

• Sep-2011
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HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich", or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich". The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features...

• Aug-2017
• / Literary
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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―af...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitte...

• Apr-2021
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• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with...

• Apr-2025
• / Literary
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"[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 2025A pulse-quickening murder ...

• Apr-2026
• / Literary
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This gossipy, epistolary novel is as full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read. —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp. —Steven Poole, The GuardianHistorical ficti...