The international bestselling writer returns to Ancient Rome in his brand new historical thriller. Join us as he talks about his new book.

Robert Harris returns to Rome in his new gripping thriller, Agrippa - published on the day of our event.

The Cicero Trilogy has been called 'the finest fictionaltreatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' (Scotsman), a 'tour deforce of research and imagination' (Express) and a 'remarkable literaryachievement' (Observer).

Now comes Agrippa:

Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to bechanged forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he hasmade his heir.The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa.To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the RomanEmpire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the EmperorAugustus. For twenty years, they rule the world together.Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity, he takesrefuge in his house on the Bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs. Yetto stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with JuliusCaesar, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the greatnaval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire, he describeshow one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowableOctavius.When it comes to power, does friendship exist at all?

Robert Harris is the author of sixteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, TheGhost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes includingthe Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The SecondSleep, V2, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated intoforty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema andtelevision. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, the writer Gill Hornby.

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