Lustrum

The year is 63 BC.
Rome a city at the heart of a vast empire, the setting for a titanic power struggle. Cicero is consul, Caesar a ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy.

The lives of these historical figures – their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes – are all woven together in this epic novel. This the second glimpse into the life of Cicero brought to us by his secretary slave Tiro, takes us deeper into the rotten heart of Roman politics first seen in Imperium.
464 pages

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii , Imperium ,Fatherland, Enigma, and Archangel, all of which were international bestsellers. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. Born in Nottingham in 1957 and after graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming the political editor of the Observer and a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He lives with his wife Gill Hornby and their children in a village near Hungerford