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Please do join us for an event with the award-winning author Laurent Binet.
He will be here to discuss his latest novel Perspectives.
Laurent Binet is known for this playful and conceptual style, which displays itself brilliantly in this new novel. Perspectives starts in Florence, New Year’s 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 de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus.
Who is the murderer?
Who is behind the painting?
As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.
An erudite murder mystery unlike any other, this dazzling novel of intrigue, murder, machinations and art is completely unforgettable.
Laurent Binet is a French writer and lecturer. His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes. He followed this success with the equally successful 7th Function of Language and Civilisations.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.