John the Pupil

<p>The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder.</p> <p>‘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.</p> <p>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.</p>