
$30.40
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2024
Summary
Precipice: A Novel of Love, War, and Treachery
Summer 1914. A world teeters on the brink of catastrophe.
In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is embroiled in a passionate love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. His obsessive letters to her reveal the most sensitive matters of state.
As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is task…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9781529152838 |
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ISBN-10: | 1529152836 |
Author: | Robert Harris |
Publisher: | Cornerstone |
Imprint: | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 464 |
Release Date: | 26 August 2024 |
Weight: | 700g |
Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the author of fifteen bestselling novels- the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
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