Each interview within the book’s pages is a carefully constructed thought experiment, a tapestry woven from historical facts, psychological insights and imaginative empathy.
The Performers & Unlikely Interviewees:
- Queen Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of independent Egypt
- Banksy, the anonymous street artist
- A Dodo bird
- The two grave robbers who stole William Shakespeare’s skull — [fictional characters]
- Anna Boch, the art collector who bought ‘The Red Vineyard’, the only painting known to have been sold during Vincent van Gogh’s lifetime
- Count Dracula
- A crush-test dummy
- Katō Hinata, one of the very first Japanese female truck drivers, sailors, sumō wrestlers and sushi chefs — [fictional character]
- Poodley, the Interviewer’s Black Poodle
- Lieutenant Columbo, LAPD
- Ginevra Gherardini, Mona Lisa’s sister
- Vātsyāyana, author of ‘Kāma-sūtra’
- Danica, Ragnar Lothbrok’s slave from the Slavic lands — [fictional character]
- The merchant of Venice who brought coffee for the first time in Europe — [fictional character]
- Zoraida, one of the ‘Mouras Encantadas’ from the Portuguese and Galician folklore — [fictional character]
- General Gaius V. Mobilus, who tried to introduce mobile phone communication for the ancient Roman Empire’s Army — [fictional character]
- Dionysus /Bacchus, the twice-born god
- Prof Dr Ellyá Scrybsdóttir, Chairwoman, who predicts a single global language within the next 100 years — [fictional character]
- Séamus ‘Salty’ O’Malley (aka The Guinnessian), a drunken Irish sailor — [fictional character]
- Interview with the interviewer (in a Venetian mirror)
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