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Precipice

Precipice

With themes of love, deception, rivalry and grand world events, this will be our biggest paperback campaign yet

THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB AND A SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READS PICK 2025

'A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession' Sunday Times

'A slam dunk of a plot . . . extraordinary' Nicholas Coleridge, Independent

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.

In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless - is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.

As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents - and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.

Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.

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With themes of love, deception, rivalry and grand world events, this will be our biggest paperback campaign yet

THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB AND A SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READS PICK 2025

'A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession' Sunday Times

'A slam dunk of a plot . . . extraordinary' Nicholas Coleridge, Independent

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.

In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless - is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.

As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents - and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.

Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.