Laurent Binet

Perspectives (UK) / Perspective(s) (US)

By Laurent Binet - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Florence, 1557: the murdered body of the Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo is found in the chancel of the Medici church of San Lorenzo, below ...Read Review

Perspective(s) (US) / Perspectives (UK)

By Laurent Binet - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2025

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

An unusual epistolary novel, Perspective(s) is a murder mystery and historical romp set in late 16th-century Florence. In the preface, a 19th-century ...Read Review

Civilisations

By Laurent Binet - Published 2021

Genres:

Alternate History

The book opens in AD 1000. Freydis Eriksdottir, Erik the Red’s daughter, leads a band of Viking warriors who travel as far as ...Read Review

HHhH

By Laurent Binet - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

HHhH (“Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” that is, “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) tells the thrilling story of Slovak Jozef Gabćik and ...Read Review