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Robert Harris
Robert Harris returns to Books Of The Year to chat about his new novel, 'Agrippa'.
The book sees Robert return to Ancient Rome, to tell the fictionalised memoir of Agrippa - one of Augustus Caesar's great friends and top generals.
They chat about why Robert decided to return to this time, 10 years after the last novel he set here - and what inspired him to write about a soldier who did so much during his life, but who is not very well known.
Robert is a master storyteller and this novel is another brilliant page-turner, which is also full of fascinating facts.
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