Overview

• El círculo de los días, published by Plaza & Janés, fictionalizes the building of Stonehenge and draws drama from the challenge of moving massive stones without wheels or draft animals.
• Penguin Random House is hosting a pop-up exhibit at Cupra City Garage on Madrid’s Calle Serrano featuring scale models, an immersive video with scents, and flint‑knapping workshops led by sculptor Antonio Soler.
• Follett says the Neolithic setting forced heavier reliance on invention, estimating the book at roughly 20% factual grounding and 80% imaginative reconstruction.
• The story centers on Seth, a flint miner tasked with solving the engineering of transport, and Joia, a charismatic priestess who mobilizes large groups to build the monument.
• Follett describes Stonehenge in the novel as primarily a religious site, likely a hub for large markets, and possibly a calendar, and he plays down Nobel prospects while his publisher cites more than 198 million copies sold.