The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder.‘John the Pupil’ is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarrantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. As well as having to fight off ambushes from thieves hungry for the thing of power they are carrying, the holy trio are tried and tempted by all sorts of sins: ambition, pride, lust – and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life.Erudite and earthy, horrifying, comic, humane, David Flusfeder’s extraordinary novel reveals to the reader a world very different and all too like the one we live in now.In this historical fiction, Flusfeder masterfully weaves a tale that is both literary and humorous, a satire of the mediaeval life that is as enlightening as it is entertaining. John the Pupil is a top pick for those who appreciate the best in historical satire.For fans of James Ellroy (The Big Nowhere), Charlotte Mendelson (Almost English), Tan Twan Eng (The Gift of Rain), Garry Disher (The Dragon Man), and Hanya Yanagihara (The People in the Trees).
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