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Imperium

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history.

The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island’s corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium – supreme power in the state.

This is the starting-point of Robert Harris’s most accomplished novel to date. Compellingly written in Tiro’s voice, it takes us inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, to describe how one man – clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable – fights to reach the top.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Robert
Harris

Robert Harris is the author of ten bestselling novels including: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator. His novel, An Officer and a Spy, won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

Photo Credit: Nick Gregan Photography

Robert Harris is the author of ten bestselling novels including: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator. His novel, An Officer and a Spy, won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

Photo Credit: Nick Gregan Photography

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

It is an absorbing and informative historical biography that captures the exhilaration of “the great game” of politics.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
England
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson

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