Making History

A novel of ideas - comical, historical, frightening and unputdownable.A mind-bending, time travelling comedy from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry.___Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds.Together they realise that they have the power to alter history and eradicate a great evil. But tinkering with timelines is more dangerous than they can imagine and nothing - past, present or future - will ever be the same again.Making History is funny, moving, romantic and told with Stephen Fry's characteristic skill and brilliance.Praise for Making History-'His best novel yet... an extravagant, deeply questioning work of science fiction' GQ'Making History has the imaginative pull that keeps the pages turning while the tea gets cold and the cat gets the goldfish' The Independent'Stephen Fry at his twinkling best' Sunday Times

“"His best novel yet... an extravagant, deeply questioning work of science fiction." - GQ "A sci-fi comedy that is also a time-travel thriller, constantly topical and always surprising... packed with the author's personal enthusiasm and hatreds, the former red-hot and the latter icy-black." - Literary Review”

Stephen Fry at his twinkling best Sunday Times
His best novel yet ... an extravagant, deeply questioning work of science fiction GQ
A sci-fi comedy that is also a time-travel thriller, constantly topical and always surprising... packed with the author's personal enthusiasm and hatreds, the former red-hot and the latter icy-black Literary Review
A powerful imaginative pull that keeps the pages turning while the tea goes cold and the cat gets the goldfish The Independent
A sprightly and entertaining read Daily Telegraph

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels - The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus and The Liar - as well as three volumes of autobiography - Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. Mythos and Heroes, his retelling of the Greek myths, are both Sunday Times bestsellers.

'His best novel yet' GQ Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. Leo Zuckerman is an ageing physicist obsessed with the darkest period in human history, utterly driven by his fanatical hatred of one man. A lover's childish revenge and the breaking of a rotten clasp cause the two men to meet in a blizzard of swirling pages. Pages of history. When they come together nothing - past, present or future - will ever be the same again. 'A powerful imaginative pull that keeps the pages turning while the tea goes cold and the cat gets the goldfish' Independent 'A sprightly and entertaining read' Daily Telegraph

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