The Works of Robert Harris, Once of Hanwell, Now President of Trinity College in Oxon, and Doctor of Divinity

**PRE-ORDER AGRIPPA NOW: THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, COMING AUGUST 2026**<BR><BR>WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?<BR><BR>'Wonderful, compulsive reading. Buy it tomorrow. Tonight if possible.' STEPHEN KING'<BR>'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH<BR><BR>Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land.<BR><BR>He must arrive at a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor before night falls. He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm.<BR><BR>What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying . . .<BR>'[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS<BR><BR>'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD<BR><BR>'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL<BR><BR>'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD<BR><BR>'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST<BR><BR>Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

**ROBERT HARRIS RETURNS TO ANCIENT ROME IN AGRIPPA -- OUT NOW**'Harris is our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' DAILY MAIL'Climatic in every sense . . . I could not put it down' GUARDIANThere was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill and courage. And for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static. And no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.'The finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' The Scotsman

Sommer 1914. Die Welt am Rande der Katastrophe.In London hat die 26-jährige Venetia Stanley - aristokratisch, klug, unbekümmert - eine Affäre mit Premierminister H. H. Asquith, einem Mann, der mehr als doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Er schreibt ihr wie besessen Liebesbriefe und teilt ihr die heikelsten Staatsgeheimnisse mit.Während Asquith das Land unfreiwillig in den Krieg gegen Deutschland führt, untersucht ein junger Geheimdienstoffizier die widerrechtliche Enthüllung streng geheimer Dokumente - und plötzlich wird aus einer intimen Affäre eine Angelegenheit der nationalen Sicherheit, die den Verlauf der politischen Geschichte verändern wird.

Europa, 1944: In einem letzten Aufbäumen setzt das Deutsche Reich seine modernste und tödlichste Waffe ein. Zehntausend V2-Raketen mit tonnenschwerem Sprengkopf sollen auf England niedergehen. Schon jetzt gibt es Tausende Opfer unter der Bevölkerung. Der Deutsche Rudi und die Engländerin Kay sind Feinde. Ein Ziel jedoch eint sie: Sie wollen den Wahnsinn beenden.

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