Robert Harris, who is perhaps best known for his World War Two novel, Fatherland, will be at Toppings books on August 28 from 7:30pm.
He’ll be there to discuss his new book, Precipice, which is set in the summer of 1914, when the world “is on the brink of catastrophe”.
The novel is about a 26-year-old woman called Venetia Stanley who begins a love affair with a man who is twice her age, H. H. Asquith – the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Asquith writes to Venetia and tells her sensitive matters of the state, but when Asquith leads the country into World War One, top secret documents are leaked – including the information that the Prime Minister sent to Venetia.
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Robert Harris will be at Toppings to talk about the book and how he wove together fact and fiction to write Precipice.
A standard ticket to the event will cost £22, but if you want to bring someone along with you, a second place will cost £7. You can buy tickets on the Toppings Books website here.
