Seventy-Two Virgins: A Comedy of Errors is a 2004 novel by politician, journalist and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson. At the time, Johnson was MP for Henley, shadow arts minister, and editor of The Spectator. Since then, he has been Mayor of London (2008–2016) and Foreign Secretary (2016–2018), and UK Prime Minister (2019–2022). This book makes Johnson the third novelist to be Prime Minister, the first two being Benjamin Disraeli (17 novels) and Winston Churchill (Savrola).