Ryan Collett

“Breathtaking and brilliant. An incredibly entertaining and intelligent exploration of contemporary loneliness and performance. It’s hard to put into words how much I love this book.”
— Garrard Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased and All the World Beside

“The best works of historical fiction collapse the distance between past and present, and George Falls Through Time excels at this. With breathless wit and cracking poetry, Collett brings us back to England of the 1300s in all its beauty and brutality. An unputdownable read.”
— Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros

“By traveling to the past, Collett writes with piercing honesty about the loneliness the present, and the duty we have to counter it with authentic human connection. This is a funny, surprising, profound novel by a writer of abundant talent.”
— Grant Ginder, bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding and So Old, So Young

“Big-hearted and inspired.” 
— Steven Rowley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guncle and The Celebrants

Newly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300.

When he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence—until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames.

George Falls Through Time is as much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits modern sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It’s a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and The Ministry of Time.