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The next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is Agrippa by Robert Harris—a portrait of a friendship and how two young men came to conquer the world.
The book was released on 27 August and Robert’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 8 September.
We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your book club. To apply, click on the survey link below. UK residents only, deadline for entries 23 September 2026.
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Agrippa
‘Time was conquered, and gradually my old friend ceased to be a man, or even a monarch, and became instead an epoch’.
Julius 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.
The 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. For 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. Yet 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?
How to apply
To apply, fill in this survey by 23 September.
