Mercury
Published in French as Mercury. English edition not yet announced.
“They cremated Farrokh; they mourned Freddie. Two men, one coffin.”
Zanzibar, 1946. A child is born Farrokh Bulsara on an island in the Indian Ocean. At eight he is sent to boarding school in Panchgani, in British India, where he learns the piano and becomes "Freddie".
London, 1970. An art student, painfully shy, decides he will be a god on stage. He invents a name taken from his own lyrics, designs his crest, builds his voice. Bohemian Rhapsody comes out in 1975.
Garden Lodge, 1991. Behind the light, a hidden life, and an illness kept secret until the day before his death, on November 24.
- The Child of Zanzibar
- The Invention of Mercury
- The Stage Character
- The Man Behind the Mask
- The Cooling Metal
- Epilogue · Who, Behind the Mask?
- Format
- Biographical essay
- Pages
- 113 (luxe hardcover) · 119 (paperback)
- Release
- Coming in 2027
- Series
- Legend
- Languages
- French




