{"product_id":"agrippa-by-robert-harris-signed-indie-exclusive","title":"PRE-ORDER Agrippa by Robert Harris (Signed Indie Exclusive)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is due to published on the 27th August 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-ordered titles will be shipped in the week of publication. If you place a pre-order alongside a title we have in stock, they will be shipped separately and you will be charged accordingly at checkout.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJulius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor twenty years, they rule the world together. Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity, he takes refuge in his house on the Bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet to stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the great naval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire, he describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowable Octavius. When it comes to power, does friendship exist at all?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57745264804221,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/8113\/7104\/files\/9781529154412.jpg?v=1769533206","url":"https:\/\/www.city-books.co.uk\/products\/agrippa-by-robert-harris-signed-indie-exclusive","provider":"City Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}